This generation needs to be the last time we re-purchase our old games.
I enjoyed revisiting the 3DS game on a modern system and felt it was paying homage to its history.
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And it’s far from the last.
Nintendo has not been especially forward-facing in its online tools.
But there are hopeful signs that the company is learning.
Nintendo will at least recognize which games you already own digitally.
And that’s a step that is more important now than ever before.
Falling behind for another entire generation would be much harder to forgive.
Not to mention, it would do damage to the company’s own reputation and value proposition going forward.
To understand why, we just need to look at the words of one of Nintendo’s console rivals.
Hundreds of Xbox 360 games simply work on modern Xbox consoles, disc and all.
Nintendo isn’t going head-to-head with PlayStation and Xbox the way those two are directly challenging each other.
But there’s a lesson to be learned about how gamers perceive the value of their purchases regardless.
Going forward, players expect their games to come with them.
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