At last, Nintendo is bringing two of the Game Boy Advance's best RPGs to Nintendo Switch Online. Stand up, Golden Sun fans, because we're finally getting Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age on the service next week, on January 17.
Not really. Their subscription service is renting because there’s a clear end-point. Buying digitally has an unclear endpoint, so it’s probably much longer.
Ideally these ports would be available in physical format as well, or as a DRM-free ROM. The former might happen, but the latter certainly won’t.
Why can’t I just… buy it? Sell them for like $10-20 each and I’d buy them.
Why buy them digitally when you wouldn’t even own them in the end anyway and would likely have to buy it again on the next generation?
So I can have a legal copy that I don’t need to rent.
Ideally Nintendo would just embrace emulation and sell roms, instead of renting them through their service.
Buying digitally on Nintendo’s store is essentially renting with extra steps anyway.
Not really. Their subscription service is renting because there’s a clear end-point. Buying digitally has an unclear endpoint, so it’s probably much longer.
Ideally these ports would be available in physical format as well, or as a DRM-free ROM. The former might happen, but the latter certainly won’t.