snixyz123@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoIt feels like Nintendo doesn’t want us to play older games until they say we can...lemmy.mlimagemessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up11.33Karrow-down111
arrow-up11.32Karrow-down1imageIt feels like Nintendo doesn’t want us to play older games until they say we can...lemmy.mlsnixyz123@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squarelateraltwo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOnly reason games don’t become public domain is because of IP license. So just in case the rights holder wants to revisit a mothballed IP decades after the last time it was relevant, the entire catalog of that IP is off limits
Only reason games don’t become public domain is because of IP license. So just in case the rights holder wants to revisit a mothballed IP decades after the last time it was relevant, the entire catalog of that IP is off limits