• SPOOSER@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s smart on Valve’s part. With how litigation-happy Nintendo is, I don’t think Valve really wants to go to bat for a program that isn’t even their own, and isn’t even needed on Steam anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Valve is lawsuit averse. They sacked NFT games and AI generated games for similar reasons.

      By the same extent, Valve is so based.

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      1 year ago

      Plus it helps leave the door open for a potential partnership if Nintendo ever decides to bring some of their games to PC. I think it will happen at some point because there is both a growing frustration with having to re-buy your library with every new Nintendo system and a lot of profit to be made on PC if you approach it like Sony has.

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        1 year ago

        That growing frustration ain’t doing shit to stop people from rebuying. Even if we get to the point where there’s 10 pissed off fans for every 1 buyer, it’s pretty much free money for Nintendo.

        I hope I’m wrong but I think we’re several generations away from that. I think what’s more likely is game licensing getting tied to your Nintendo Home account (or whatever it’s called, I don’t have a Switch) and being accessible on new consoles…for a fee, of course.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah I think PC only happens when potential PC sales eclipse those rebuys and not one second before. Might be several generations away tbh.

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        1 year ago

        Haven’t all nintendo consoles been backwards compatible since the Wii though? Don’t Nintendo store games bought on the Wii work on the switch?