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Honestly probably a while. Selling the same game over and over with minimal changes is quite profitable (see: call of duty, fifa, etc). Selling the same game over and over again with no changes... probably more so.



Certainly working for Nintendo. Does the NES mario game require any porting effort? Yet it gets repeatedly sold on their virtual stores.


They might not even be using their own efforts to "port". Here's an article suggesting that they just downloaded a pirated ROM off the Internet to resell to users: https://www.eurogamer.net/did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-...




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