I think Sega has been pretty smart with the way it handles it's older games. Anybody that cared about the original versions of Sonic already has roms of these games that they either dumped from their own cart or more likely just downloaded from somewhere.
How Sega has gotten around the rampant piracy is offering a good value and a convenient front end to play their games. Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection was like $20 for 48 really good genesis games, with a decent front end and no setup.
On the other hand, you have Nintendo who wanted to charge you $8 to play the original Super Mario Bros, a game literally everyone owns and can be emulated on a Windows 98 PC.
I think Sega has been pretty smart with the way it handles it's older games. Anybody that cared about the original versions of Sonic already has roms of these games that they either dumped from their own cart or more likely just downloaded from somewhere.
How Sega has gotten around the rampant piracy is offering a good value and a convenient front end to play their games. Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection was like $20 for 48 really good genesis games, with a decent front end and no setup.
On the other hand, you have Nintendo who wanted to charge you $8 to play the original Super Mario Bros, a game literally everyone owns and can be emulated on a Windows 98 PC.
also oops, old eshops are shut down, you'll just have to rebuy the same games on our new shop 5 years later