Miyamoto: Nintendo's game ownership policy should operate "like a toy company"

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While Microsoft's used game policy for Xbox One has revealed the company's desire to transition game ownership to a more licence-based approach, Nintendo's top designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said he believes that gamers should retain access "for a long time" to games they have own.
Miyamoto told Eurogamer that he thought games, like a physical toy, should remain the property of their owner.
"What's really important is viewing Nintendo almost like a toy company where we're making these things for people to play with," he said. "As a consumer you want to be able to keep those things for a long time and have those things from your youth that you can go back to and experience again.
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