This is the primary reason Switch is the first Nintendo console I didn't purchase. I had every one from NES through Wii U. But when they got rid of the virtual console..(and if my memory on my Wii corrupts again...I lose all of my purchases with no way to re them😡). I refused to buy one. I will not pay $50 a year to "rent" games. I don't play all that many, so it would be for just a few. Wind Waker is my favorite non top down Zelda game. And the very last Zelda game I liked at all. Sell it to me..or I don't want it. The Switch 2 only has two confirmed games that I would even play (Mario Kart, Star Wars Outlaws). $500 is too much for something that I would get very little use out of.

I don't like the following:

3D Mario games

3d DK games

Pokemon anything

Metroid Prime

Smash Brothers games

Anything Anime based

So, i'd really only be buying it for:

Mario Kart

Mario Golf

Punch out

2d DK games

2d Mario games

2d Metroid games

Wind Waker

Old top down Zelda games

Switch sports

Some of these may never come to Switch 2. So, yeah $500 for something that only plays games is a tough sell to me. Can't even use it for Netflix or streaming content.

I've always been opposed to roms, but if Nintendo won't sell the games I want to me...I may have to resort to that.