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Topic	Nintendo just quietly delisted a ton of DSiWare
HeroDelTiempo17 01/04/21 1:27:15 PM #8:	Lightning Strikes posted... However, this isnt a physical vs. digital issue, its a good digital maintenance issue, which you shouldnt expect from console makers who need to push their new hardware and thus leave the old hardware (and their digital storefronts) behind. Hopefully with backwards compatibility becoming the norm this will change. Only Xbox are fully committed to aiming to have the entire library available though. I feel like this is splitting hairs when the criticism is that priority changes based on profit motive and the company's whims. Nintendo used to have good digital management with the Wii/U VC, until they didn't. Any company at any point can decide BC or digital archives it isn't worth it. Even for Microsoft, I assume their interest in backwards compatibility and digital is due to Game Pass and if that shuts down I wouldn't expect them to prioritize it. --- I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig! <cite>HeroDelTiempo17 posted [p:949093809] in Nintendo j... [t:79218048]...</cite> <quote>Lightning Strikes posted... </cite> <quote> However, this isnt a physical vs. digital issue, its a good digital maintenance issue, which you shouldnt expect from console makers who need to push their new hardware and thus leave the old hardware (and their digital storefronts) behind. Hopefully with backwards compatibility becoming the norm this will change. Only Xbox are fully committed to aiming to have the entire library available though.</quote> I feel like this is splitting hairs when the criticism is that priority changes based on profit motive and the company's whims. Nintendo used to have good digital management with the Wii/U VC, until they didn't. Any company at any point can decide BC or digital archives it isn't worth it. Even for Microsoft, I assume their interest in backwards compatibility and digital is due to Game Pass and if that shuts down I wouldn't expect them to prioritize it. --- I definitely did not forget to put the 2020 GOTD Guru winner, azuarc in my sig!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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