<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>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></item><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>RajT88</author><text>When you think of &amp;quot;Playing a long game&amp;quot; when applied to a tech company, you probably think &amp;quot;longer than the next year&amp;quot;.  Maybe you think &amp;quot;the next 5 years&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Nintendo was founded in 1889.  They are for sure playing a long game measured in decades.  They definitely don&amp;#x27;t obey the same &amp;quot;laws of physics&amp;quot; other console manufacturers seem beholden to.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s unwise to think Nintendo is acting out of ignorance.</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>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></item><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>phatfish</author><text>There is also the issue that most of those 3500 are never going to played for more than 5 minutes and will just be there as a curiosity.&lt;p&gt;There are the classics still worth playing, and the cult titles that hit some nostalgia button for a significant number of people. Beyond those it&amp;#x27;s just not worth it for Nintendo to even format a jpeg of the box art.&lt;p&gt;Personally I prefer a curated list with the scans of the manual and some history behind the game like they provide now. Otherwise you are in  decision paralysis looking at 1000s of titles with no clue which is worth your time.&lt;p&gt;Them trying to ring out more money on top of the base Switch Online subscription for N64 games is my main issue. If they had not done that I would likely have subscribed again. The drip feed is a little too slow also, but I don&amp;#x27;t have the free time anyway so it&amp;#x27;s not a deal breaker.&lt;p&gt;As it stands I&amp;#x27;ll wait for my Steam Deck and not be able to decide which ROM to play on there ;)</text></comment>