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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2260984" data-attributes="member: 151">I didn't mean to imply that it was.  The question was raised "is being able to download older games a draw?", and IMHO it is one.  It's not a killer feature, but it could be a tipping point, and Nintendo knows it.  We're already gettting announcements by companies that their older catalogs are going to be available through Nintendo's service, so the broader the support, the more popular it will be.  More importantly, it opens a whole new avenue for game and content distribution...if successful, it could have wide-reaching implications.My point with the GBA games was that everyone commonly assumed that Nintendo was nuts for releasing $20 GBA versions of NES games...and they sold like hotcakes.  When you consider that Nintendo has a very loyal fanbase, you can extrapolate outwards to the consoles.  Nintendo is clearly trying to position themselves in a horizontal move away from Sony and MS.  Whether that will succeed or fail remains to be seen...but Nintendo hasn't lost money on a console, yet, even if they haven't won the number one spot.Right now, Sony and MS are locked in a tight battle for number one.  If I believed Killzone was real, I'd say Sony was winning.  If Microsoft hadn't just admitted that 'backwards-compatible' apparently doesn't mean the same thing to them that it does to US, I'd say they were winning.  Not that it really matters much.Me, I just want to play more games.  Right now, I'd really like to go play some more "God of War"...if not for this stupid "work" thing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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