I don't like Nintendo as a company very much. I
love their games (A LOT!!! :D), especially the older ones, but the way they go about introducing new consoles and dealing with older ones are very frustrating. Also,
Nintendo wrote:It is not a "second copy" rule and is often mistakenly cited for the proposition that if you have one lawful copy of a copyrighted work, you are entitled to have a second copy of the copyrighted work even if that second copy is an infringing copy.
Just because you aren't entitled doesn't mean that it's an insanely bad problem
And I'm pretty sure that the "less than 3 decades" thing is just NIntendo being full of themselves, similar to how they come off with the policies I already mentioned. I love the game developers, and whoever else is involved in the awesome creations Nintendo has made, but the business people are kinda jerks.