Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition, a 2017 remake of the beloved 1999 RPG. It’s fantastic that Shadow of the Colossus can still resonate with people in 2018 the way it did in 2005. They’re important games, don’t get me wrong.
Thus we get the one-percent-the games so notorious or so beloved they’ll sell a second, a third, or even a fourth time. Remasters cost money though, and are (understandably) meant to make money. The situation’s gotten slightly better in the last decade or so, with remasters and remakes like Crash Bandicoot and Baldur’s Gate II and Homeworld and System Shock reviving classics for a modern audience. Or not that nobody cared, but that so few companies cared, and that they continue to not care. And later this year Nintendo will roll out a subscription service, Nintendo Switch Online, which will dole out a selection of retro games on the Switch for a yearly fee.īut games? The problem is nobody cared. The last two holiday seasons have revolved around Nintendo’s elusive NES Mini and SNES Classic console refreshes. Nintendo also sells old software though, right? The Wii’s Virtual Console convinced a ton of people to buy legal copies of Nintendo classics. Sure, $150,000 per infringing ROM is a lot for LoveRETRO, but it’s lunch money for Nintendo-not to mention, money Nintendo almost certainly knows it’s not getting. So let’s go over what Nintendo gains from all this legal action: Almost nothing. Having the legal right doesn’t necessarily make it morally right though. Let’s be clear: Nintendo is 100 percent within its legal rights to go after emulation sites and sue them into the ground. It’s illegal under the current rules to distribute the BIOS or any ROMs though-and it has been illegal, for decades.
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