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slayer828 t1_je3qlm8 wrote

if nintendo were smart they would have already hit the steam market themselves.

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mothacluppa t1_je4k5ti wrote

Lol are you suggesting that Nintendo should make some consumer-friendly business decisions? Unlikely

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[deleted] t1_je509m4 wrote

Why is that? They make so much money with selling games and Switches

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slayer828 t1_je538i6 wrote

Why is Playstation doing it? If you release your older titles to new platforms, players will more likely buy your new console for the sequel. Look at horizon and God of War.

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[deleted] t1_je53li9 wrote

Because play station is not the same as Nintendo.

Nintendo earns money from every Switch sold, Sony loses money on every ps5 Sold

And should I say something about sales? Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a wii u port sold 3x more copies than God of War 2018

Even in 2022, Pokemon Scarlet Violet sold twice the amount of copies compared to Gow Ragnarok

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Kengfatv t1_je5ktbx wrote

Yeah? Are they making so much money off of the N64 game I downloaded? or the copy of BOTW I downloaded? I absolutely would have bought them. But there's no way I'm buying a console to play 2 games/console gen.

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Aliusja1990 t1_je6si1i wrote

No but they are off all the other people who do. I didnt realize you were nintendo's sole customer lmao. Reddit gamers man. They think they are the majority lmao.

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Kengfatv t1_je6su9w wrote

Oh shit are companies limited to selling their products to only a single person now? I didn't realize that. Sorry.

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Aliusja1990 t1_je6tan1 wrote

Yea you should be sorry for making dumb comments lmao. Like this one too. You know what point is being made, stop evading.

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Kengfatv t1_je6ujkn wrote

There is no point being made. There's no reason they can't sell games on PC and on their console, like every other company does. It makes no sense not to, they'd make millions more.

in fact consoles are even sold at a loss, specifically because they expect to make more off of individual game sales. So to have someone else emulate the console for free, and even act as a platform they could sell their games on without porting it over to PC would be nothing but beneficial to them.

You're basically trying to defend someone that goes "I have an infinite supply of icing that anyone can take from for free. I can give everybody the option of buying it if I want. But I'll only sell it to people that buy it with my cake mix. Everyone else gets it free."

like why? What's the purpose? You aren't preventing piracy, and you're losing money in the process. How does this help you?

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[deleted] t1_je5ky5a wrote

They are not making games for you, you will probably just pirate the Steam version of Botw or N64, no hate but thats how it is

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qrseek t1_je48gf7 wrote

They make their own emulators they have on the switch that you get free access to with a Nintendo online and online plus membership. They don't have wii and GameCube titles but they have nes, snes, n64, gameboy and gameboy advance.

edit: i dont know why yall are downvoting me for simply sharing what nintendo is doing. why would they put their emulators on steam if they want people to use their system? nintendo has never made their games cross-platform before. i said it's free bc people don't get Online to play the emulators probably, they get it to play their games online. also it's $20 a year, come on.

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[deleted] t1_je4jihx wrote

>free access
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>Nintendo online and online plus membership.

Not too bright.

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