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They've been endlessly DMCAing emulators and fan projects while offering no viable alternative for playing old games. They want you to pay a subscription fee to play a handful of n64 games on the switch using an emulator that is decades behind the open source alternatives and notably is even worse than previous iterations of nintendo's own n64 emulators on Wii and gamecube.
There was a video I had liked on youtube breaking down their emulator incompetence but I can't find it. They likely had it taken down.
But this one is still up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6Wmp6I5JQ It's about how nintendo bans people from mario maker for using "glitches". Not even game breaking stuff, just random movement tech.
The whole company has just become anti-consumer and anti-fun. The behavior is the hallmark of management who has inherited property from their superior ancestors. They know they could never make something as great, so they cling to their inheritance with all their might.
I don’t even go as far to say I hate Nintendo, but they are one place I break my own rules. My general rule is I pirate nothing that’s still available from the developer. Paying a recurring fee to play a tiny handful of old games the rare times I want to is a no go. I’m pretty sure I owned all of them on the Wii eShop before too. Charge $5 a piece and I’d have spent my $30-40 and bought everything I wanted. I might have bought a few more even. Since it’s recurring fee, I hacked my Switch instead and have nice little icons for the games I wanted and don’t have to wade through a bad menu for an old console. Problem solved.