even this guy who is a massive nintendo fanboy makes a funny face like "wtf r u doing guys'. Basically they are taking all instances of the mario compilation off the shelves even ones not sold in stores come this date I think April 1 and all history of it all traces of it basically from their digital store:
This is why I dont understand the cancel culture. WHy havent they cancelled nintendo yet for such despicable behavior or what they did to the goldeneye remake?
Originally posted by Wariat
yea but how does this benefit nintendo? this only benefits the used ir second hand game market or collectors.
Their entire main company value is the strength of their IPs, which they treat like a "library", that's why it actually works. If you buy a Switch in 2021 as an average consumer, you will still buy the Zelda game, the Mario game, the Smash game etc, no matter how long ago they were released. By contrast someone who buys a Sony system in 2021 won't necessarily be buying something released 5 years ago. Taking down the Mario collection means the copies that do exist are perceived as more valuable.
But you dont get it. They are taking them out of stores and digital. Thus no one will be able to buy it anymore form nintendo so nintendo in essence is profiting the traders resellers and collectors.
They're not trying to sell any more copies, they are trying to sell none. They're not trying to benefit the aftermarket, that is just a side effect. They are retaining and increasing the value of their intellectual property portfolio. People WANT Nintendo shit. Next time a cool limited run title comes out, people might buy even more than the trickle of sales they might get on this one, because people don't want to kiss out.
I dont see how taking a product off the market partially since if anyone wants they will still be able to attain copies in the aftermarket even later at higher price, increases its value especially since the games are basically ports. What value does it increase for the original gamecube verison of sunshine to be in greater demand? Most of those games they probably wont or dont plan on releasing anytime soon anyway.
The point is that now there are a limited number of copies remaining. The value of each of those copies go up over time as they become scarce and their stable of IPs keeps growing more valuable. People tomorrow won't want Mario less, they'll want him more, this is one of the ways they ensure it.
yea but theyll want it and it womt be available for purchase except at a premium from the second hand market thus money on the table lost for nintendo.
Except you can just play the game on emulator pretty easily, get a wii and mod it to play ISOs. Pirating galaxy is a bitch though, I bought the collection but mostly because I just wanna play sunshine and I think it's one of the best platform games ever made. but on emulator you can play a hacked save file to skip cutscenes unlike the legal version.
just look at this movement.
The only reason sunshine isn't a popular speedrun game is because it has a 10 min unskippable into movie. And they fucked over mario 64 by removing the so long gay bowser.
Originally posted by Wariat
yea but theyll want it and it womt be available for purchase except at a premium from the second hand market
Yes, a limited and diminishing amount. And other titles of the same IPs will be released, now more valuable. It's not "money left on the table" if it devalues you extremely valuable IP, they are refusing to lose billions for a couple hundred thousand sales
I don't understand why you can't grasp this simple fucking point.
