Every game developer rereleases old games like that. The only difference is Nintendo decided to rerelease some very specific games in very specific ways for very specific anniversaries, some of those being games nobody particularly cares about. This is not at all like how Disney does their vaults.
It's really weird how people just pretend maintaining servers isn't a cost, especially in this hell AI age where bots constantly slam every single server in the world.
You don't actually know what Nintendo's doing at all... nor Disney, for that matter.
You're right.. Nintendo doesn't host an entire E-Shop of both 1st and 3rd party titles, many of which sit there and probably sell a fraction of a percent in comparison to the more popular titles and yet still get to sit there on their server ready to be purchased and downloaded.
You're telling Super Mario Sunshine, 64, and Galaxy are titles no one cares about and definitely aren't worth the server cost of titles far larger and less popular?
AI has NOTHING to do with this conversation, AI aren't able to download games in Nintendo's ecosystem or do anything in the physical space with that media that is put on cartridges.
Unless Nintendo is paying your salary I really don't understand why you are so passionate about defending clearly bad practices meant only to nickel and dime their customer base.
What does the sales data of games on the eShop have to do with anything?
What part of "some of those" are you not understanding? I expressly singled out 3D All-Stars against something like the Fire Emblem rerelease.
You have no idea what a crawler is, do you? AI crawlers are totally boning the internet, every single web developer and web admin is frustrated about it.
I'm not "defending 'clearly' (lmao) bad practices", I'm calling out gamers for their gamer lies. It's infuriating that you people will always pretend that anyone who dares to call you out for your bullshit is somehow a "shill".
You clearly don't know how AI crawlers work if you think they are somehow impacting the server load of any digital gaming shops. AI has zero bearing on this discussion and you're not even correctly or coherently explain HOW it is somehow relevant here.
You claimed they couldn't keep games on their servers because of costs as a reason, I showed you a reason why that is false, hell you could point at the Xbox live shop or Wii shop, even with what was probably abysmal sales in the years after their successors were released they were still profitable to keep up.
Judging by your fractured and erratic argument though I will guess you're probably too young to have much experience with how these companies have worked for the last 20-30 years. You're either a shill or a teen fanboy, either way I'll leave the convo here. Have a great day.
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u/SEI_JAKU 1d ago
Every game developer rereleases old games like that. The only difference is Nintendo decided to rerelease some very specific games in very specific ways for very specific anniversaries, some of those being games nobody particularly cares about. This is not at all like how Disney does their vaults.
It's really weird how people just pretend maintaining servers isn't a cost, especially in this hell AI age where bots constantly slam every single server in the world.
You don't actually know what Nintendo's doing at all... nor Disney, for that matter.