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Online Service’s Free Virtual Console Games Expire After One Month

Nintendo’s website describing the benefits of their paid online service seem intentionally vague. The description for the ‘Monthly Game Download…

So, unless I’m misunderstanding this, you would be given a free game in March, could play it for free throughout March, and then should you try to play it in April or afterwards you’d have to purchase the game.

Nintendo, please, please stop disappointing me and tell me this isn’t true.

That’s actually pretty good for people like me who play a game and then stop once I finish with it

It’s not an awful system, and it’s better than what they’ve had in the past, but it’s still saying “Hey, thanks for paying for our service, here’s a present.  If you want to keep it after the first give us money.”

Both PSN and XBox Live offer full retail games for free each month, often newer budget titles or older AAA games, and you get to keep the games received through that indefinitely (though you have to maintain your PSN subscription to play the titles on that service you still don’t have to actually buy the games).  Nintendo only offering what amounts to a 1 month demo of 30 year old games is not a good compromise.

(via silver-tongues-blog)