So Nintendo not only took your money they also took your access to your OWN game good job Nintendo good job just spat in our faces,(reply>), This is what happens with any digital games, since they're just licenses on your account or/and console.<br>Plus that with a loyal fanbase and you get Nintendo, it seems.<br>Or it's just people that buy shit that they never use again.<br>With games on Windows, the usual thing standing in your way is uncracked old DRM or incompatible support in future Windows releases, possibly new hardware not supporting old Windows releases too, so you may be a bit screwed. But even then there's VM isn't there. As long as that is supported..<br>There will probably always be some way for any new hardware to use unsupported Windows versions, be it from Microsoft or from third-party.<br>But with Xbox, Playstation and whatever Nintendo does, it's a closed system. When all the old models degrade after production ends, all you have is the company making sure the old games work on the newer consoles.<br>If they don't, it's bye bye forever. Maybe they'll make some overpriced junk in the future for top 25 games, whatever that means.<br>The rest of the library went poof. (I didn't mention emulation because that probably goes outside of what you bought. You bought a license for the game, which most likely is limited to the console you bought it on. Using it on anything not-that-console and/or not-that-account could be outside of the license agreement.),(reply>), The main reason I won't buy Nintendo console ever.