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Subject: Re: A (small) Step In The Right Direction
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:43:39 -0500
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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
> Honestly, I wouldn't have expected this from Nintendo. While they're
> best known for their unique style of games, but they are probably
> second-best known for the tightness of their grip around their
> properties.
> 
> So, learning that you will soon be able to share your games with
> others on the Switch (and soon-to-be-released "Switch 2") seems
> incredibly out of character with them.* Essentially, every game will
> have a 'virtual card' associated with it, and if you drag that card to
> a friend's Switch, they'll be able to play that game. It's a digital
> equivalent of yanking a cartridge out of your console and handing it
> over to your buddy to take home from the night.
> 
> Obviously you won't be able to play it in the meantime, but that's
> only fair, right? There are some other restrictions too (for instance,
> you can only transfer within your 'family group', which can contain a
> maximum of 8 members, and there's a limit on how often you can add or
> remove people, but still, it's an admirable concession...especially
> for families with children that don't want to have to buy the same
> game for each kid.
> 
> I personally adore the visual simplicity of the method too. It
> re-captures the feel of 'cat ridge games that adds an almost tactile
> feel to the sharing. I've used library sharing for family on Steam,
> but it's much less personal: "Here, have access to this huge list of
> games." Being able to virtually hand over a game I think is good and
> worth playing to somebody has an appeal all on its own.
> 
> But it does raise the question: if it can be made so easy to share
> games between family members... shouldn't it be just as easy to SELL
> those games? Because, ultimately, all you are doing is transferring
> licenses, and if all of a sudden it's okay to move licenses between a
> select group of people, why can't I do it with anyone... and maybe get
> a fee for the privilege? Steam's "you're only sharing the entire
> library" method adds a certain distance to this that shields them from
> these questions, but by allowing single-game license-transfers,
> Nintendo opens themselves up to this next step.
> 
> I'm not sure Nintendo has considered this, but I do hope that this new
> scheme of theirs sets precedent that can one day be used to give
> gamers back their rights to sell their games again.
> 

That would be good.  When I visited Ant in the hospital he had a bag of 
games some of them from 1985.
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