I agree with you. Rights are rights and Nintendo is nothing if not good at protecting their rights. They have been doing it since their early days, it is just more consumer focused now than it was in the 8-Bit days. Back then we didn't really know - I remember rumors that Nintendo games would quit working after 5 years, others about this game will brick your console, etc.

During that time, Nintendo was doing things against other companies. They were not threatening to brick our consoles themselves.

Nintendo, and other companies, could easily deal a deadly blow to illegal ROM downloading by offering these games digitally at a decent price - $8 for the original Baseball on NES being the only release for weeks is not a deal to me. For some it may be but to me, no.

Also, make these digital releases available on PC and whomever's console if it is a first party game.

Give gamers options. Keep those titles in collections available to gamers to buy physical, or digital, copies of.

I understand that there is more to it such as licensing but sadly, that is the games I mostly download. The hard to get, the original cartridge is $500+ loose and may or may not work.

Remakes are in the same boat. We keep getting the same remakes often because those are easy to license. The obscure, cult classic, stuff is impossible to figure out who owns it and when you think you found the owner, 20+ other people pop up with dubious at best rights to the game demanding obscene amounts of money.

At the end of the day the actual number of people that will mod a Switch or Switch 2 is pretty low. The problem is, Nintendo almost has to, by law, defend themselves when it pops up.

Imagine if Sega tried to go after people for modding the Dreamcast after all these years. Every court in the country would laugh them out of the building for letting it go so long unbridled. They would have no case and defendants would have tons of defense showing Sega did nothing for years.

I am sure they could find a court somewhere that would take the case but I am unsure of the outcome being in Segas favor.

Nintendo on the other hand has nearly 100% success rate in defending their IPs and such - their biggest loss being to Galoob/Camerica over the Game Genie.

With the integration of the Internet it is easier for companies like Nintendo to focus on individuals than it ever has been. Back in the day, Nintendo was not able to stop every person making illegal carts and selling them at flea markets in the backwoods towns of California or Texas. Today though, it is very easy to stop that stuff, a simple Google search reveals tons of potential defendants.

It just sucks that Nintendo has to go this route with even the threat, even if they had no plans to go through with it. It just mars their image a bit more.

Their audience won't care though as those are the people that must have the latest Nintendo release, hardware or game. Those are the hardcore Nintendo fans and in this case, there are probably a TON of hardcore fans.

I stopped supporting Nintendo with the SNES. I just could not get behind the N64 controller and the Gamecube one was even worse. I did buy a 3DS though. Love that little hand held, it is awesome.

Honestly, that can be said for most of Nintendo's hardware and games, not the Virtual Boy though, they make games that are mostly timeless fun. I just hope they are not going down a road of living long enough to be the villain of the gaming industry.