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Originally Posted by anamardoll
1. They're stupid.
2. They think they're too big to fail and they don't need money from classic games.
3. They can't re-license the classic games for use on Android for X legal reasons.
4. They don't want classic games competing for their current hand-held market.
5. They don't understand classic gamers.
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1. Probably this.
2. Sony has/had a decent amount of PlayStation classics on their PSN store, XBox Live Arcade has had several classic titles for sale and raked in some good money. Nintendo has their Virtual Console which sells games from Commodore 64 to the Nintendo 64. So, the "big three" are pulling some money from their old games. Plus, there's been a couple of Capcom and Sega "compilation" games on newer systems that have bunches of their old games.
3. Maybe. I don't know. Not sure that the "big three" want to fart with the mobile (cell phone, not handheld gaming devices like DS and PSP) market at all.
4. More in-line with #3, methinks. Nintendo does plan to bring a Virtual Console like service to the 3DS eventually, though. I imagine Sony may do the same kind of thing with their NGP.
5. I think that Nintendo does, to an extent. But, I think that in general, classic gamers are overlooked. And it's sad.