“ Nintendo is a billion dollar company and no one is going hungry because someone played Metroid on an emulator”, writes Twitter user Kaltrops_. Nintendo’s a big, profitable company, and it’s not like everyone put down their Switches to illegally download Metroid anyways. Some also take the approach of “no one’s getting hurt” with emulation. Worse still, they’re not available on the Switch, having once again been left behind. While Pokemon Red and Blue were re-released on the 3DS eshop, they were very much the exception and not the rule. Pokemon games are notoriously left behind, though that’s largely to do with the fact early Nintendo handhelds were backwards compatible. It’s not just obscure third-party games that get left behind, either. Many older Nintendo games are left behind on previous consoles, only getting “freed” from their prison with re releases such as Bayonetta’s re release on the Nintendo Switch or Fatal Frame: Maiden of Blackwater. Of course, the emulator scene wouldn’t be so aggressively centered around Nintendo if fans weren’t already upset with the company for what they see as years of no support for older games. “They are going to be on their knees thanking the emulator scene in ten years when there are no working Switch’s and Nintendo hasn’t bothered to re-release this on any of their modern systems”. “ What the hell is up with these whiners?”, Twitter user Jenevieve writes. Follow common argument boils down to this: “If publishers or developers have no intention of ever letting a game see the light of day, why shouldn’t the people who want to play it be able to? As long as no one is making money, why not?”, the thought goes.
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