David Rosenthal: belief

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…Totally. Interestingly, if I let my subscription lapse, if I don't pick it up again, for six months, there's a six-month grace period, then I lose all my saved data. If I'm someone who got super invested in all the progress I made in Breath of the Wild, I have to keep paying Nintendo, assuming that I bought the game digitally instead of as a little cartridge, which is weird that they offer both, by the way. It's very Nintendo. I think that is actually a console games industry problem as a whole, not just Nintendo. Xbox and Sony have the same issue. You look at the PS5 and the Xbox series X through one line, you're like, why the hell do you have CD slots? On the other hand, core gamers feel very strongly about this for the reason you said. They really want to own their games and make sure that nobody can ever take them away from them. And resale. I can't ever sell. I just paid Nintendo $120 for two games in the last week. That's money I'm never getting back.…

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