First Click: Nintendo could learn a lot from Netflix
Nintendo DS and N64 games are finally coming to the Wii U! Great news, right?
Well. Kind of?
Look, Super Mario 64 is one of the greatest video games of all time. It did for 3D gaming what The Wizard of Oz did for color cinema. It’s important that it remain available on modern hardware, and it’s absolutely worth $10 in a vacuum. But these truths aside, isn’t the business model a little antiquated?
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has, in the past, cited concerns over the plummeting perception of software value as a reason not to develop mobile games. This might be why Nintendo insists on drip-feeding Virtual Console ports at high individual prices, even when the games in question have been re-released for prior platforms; pretty much…
Source:: The Verge
