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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by squeaky-clean on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:33PM (#31092136)
The complaints were that the digital release was available for a limited time only. It's even more insulting that they're still selling the physical cartridge version of it. But if you want to own it digitally keeping the store page on their servers for more than 6 months was too difficult? I specifically didn't buy this because I don't want to normalize the trend of time-limited digital game sales. Shutting down your online store long after a product lifespan is over is understandable. But a 6 month purchase window is just trying to profit off of FOMO

https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/2021/super-mario-3d...

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:59AM (#31093657)
> It's even more insulting that they're still selling the physical cartridge version of it.

Are they still manufacturing the cartridges, or did it just sell really poorly?

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Re:Leaked Game Boy emulators for Switch were made by Nintend... by nicolapcweek94 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @06:59AM (#31095092)
Officially, the cartridges stopped production around the same date the digital version was "taken down". It just sold exactly as poorly as every other retrogaming/nostalgia cash grab remake, and I say that as someone that bought it and has preordered the Advance Wars remakes. The only reason you can still find cartridges of the 3D remakes is that third party sellers (amazon, gamestop etc) still have tons of stock of it.
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