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Recent leaks have revealed that Nintendo originally planned to continue the Virtual Console model for the Nintendo Switch before ultimately canceling it due to high costs associated with emulator testing and other challenges.

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[–] dinckelman 19 points 4 days ago

Saving up all that money to pursue lawsuits instead

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And yet they did it anyway, but called it something else and are charging an expensive subscription for it.

[–] EarMaster 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Expensive is a hard word for something that gets you a whole year compared to the price of two month everywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I'm comparing it to owning virtual console games on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

But of course the community somehow does it for free and much better...