<story><title>Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/leaked-game-boy-emulators-for-switch-were-made-by-nintendo-experts-suggest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I’ll never understand why Nintendo doesn’t do a subscription to play any old game older than say three generations.&lt;p&gt;Nintendo is in the best position - since they never focused on specs all of their consoles are easily emulate-able.&lt;p&gt;There’s really no excuse. Even from a revenue perspective I’m confident they’d make more money this way. Make it so it works on any device - again Nintendo can do this because the consoles don’t require great computers to emulate.&lt;p&gt;You probably could run 100 gba emulators simultaneously at 120fps on a modern commodity desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Firmwarrior</author><text>I learned about this when I read the book &amp;quot;Console Wars&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Nintendo has always been all about artificial scarcity and increasing their products&amp;#x27; value that way, ever since the early 80s&lt;p&gt;If Nintendo put out a subscription service with 3500 games, it would de-value all those games in the long run even though it might earn more revenue for the next few years.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintendo, experts suggest</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/04/leaked-game-boy-emulators-for-switch-were-made-by-nintendo-experts-suggest/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>endisneigh</author><text>I’ll never understand why Nintendo doesn’t do a subscription to play any old game older than say three generations.&lt;p&gt;Nintendo is in the best position - since they never focused on specs all of their consoles are easily emulate-able.&lt;p&gt;There’s really no excuse. Even from a revenue perspective I’m confident they’d make more money this way. Make it so it works on any device - again Nintendo can do this because the consoles don’t require great computers to emulate.&lt;p&gt;You probably could run 100 gba emulators simultaneously at 120fps on a modern commodity desktop.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lcnPylGDnU4H9OF</author><text>I pay for Nintendo Switch Online, which includes access to a handful of games from the NES and SNES consoles. If I want to pay more I could also get access to games for N64 and SEGA Genesis (SEGA Mega Drive outside of North America if I&amp;#x27;m not mistaken).&lt;p&gt;I would have to assume (may not be correct) that Nintendo Switch Online will roll over to their new console(s), albeit under some other name, including the emulation software and game access.</text></comment>