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[โ€“] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I doubt Nintendo will let them buy a license. Why would Nintendo sell them a license for a handheld console they don't even make anymore? It would not encourage sales of their newest product, and therefore they don't care. Nintendo has historically stopped people from developing homebrew games for their older systems if they get too big or popular, why would they suddenly change now?

Nintendo is the MOST anti-consumer company of the three major console makers, with Sony following in second. There is no indication they would ever change to do anything that benefits the consumer. They tried to make us all buy NES Mario on Virtual Console twice, and now you can't even buy VC games, you have to rent them.

[โ€“] yggstyle@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

+1 for the anti-consumer statement.

This is a company that goes after groups who hold tournaments with their games and issues takedowns against people on video platforms just playing their games. Genuinely an awful company (good games don't excuse the behavior.)