> takes away your ownership of games with their game code carts, tries to control and destroy the second hand market.
replyThat's wrong. The game key-cards are just a proof of ownership. You can sell the key-cards or buy used ones without any problem.
The only difference between a key-card and regular game cartridge is that key-cards will require you to download the game.
Nintendo is much better than their competition (Sony) in this aspect
The Nintendo Store goes down in ten years, and you're shit out of luck.
replyPeople on this thread are talking about playing Super Mario 64 because they own their game. Nintendo has been ensuring you will not pass down your games to your children.
No first-party game is a Game Key Card and without them, the rest of them would just be digital without a store-release. No store has yet shut down, you can still download bought games from the Wii Shop from 20 years ago. And GKC aren't tied to the eShop infrastructure. Nintendo did the least damaging thing while still giving gamers the option.
replyThe entire video game industry does this now, and Nintendo didn't start it, in fact they're one of the last hold-outs
replyTwo wrongs don't make a right, but three wrongs also don't make it right, it just makes Nintendo last. If anything, it proves the market will bear it, and the only people who really care about actually owning a game are those who have done it before.
replyI know it doesn't make it right, was a response to calling Nintendo a scourge on the video game industry
replyNintendo remains a treasured memory of many 90s childhoods. They took great risks to innovate both on hardware and software side for ~2 decades, I'm not defending what they did since.
replyI'm also not arguing for intellectual property or copyright enforcement. I'm asking what comes next, I'm genuinely curious here.