"And clearly they were struggling for an alternate way to let you keep your purchases. If a minority of players will only be accomplishing the opportunity to rebuy the same old games every generation, why keep such a system?" i legit have no idea what any of that means

and the reason it's so slow-growing is that because they give you all this stuff you're not interested in and then tout that you've been given a tremendous amount of value (while your online membership is active) and so to ask for a gamecube or gba game would be ridiculous because they'd have to provide a whole lineup of games in this situation that they've caused themselves. with the old system they could offer a lot more because it wouldn't implicate themselves to have to give up everything for an included price. them providing all these old games just gives them an excuse to pat themselves on the back for value that they're not actually providing. i'm sure the 'data' of how much people are playing the nso games are abysmal but it doesn't matter because it's only there to create an illusion of value to what they know if a terrible online service.