I always wondered how people viewed this as.
We know Virtual Console prices are cheap as dirt. Instead of buying that bag of chips, we can get a literal masterpiece from our childhood on our favorite consoles.
... But does anyone agree with me that this is uh... Unfair?
I understand people don't want to really pay a huge price for something they played 15+ years ago but to be honest, not everyone has played it? I also know people don't really want to pay for "Such an old game" because apparently the time period/year a game came out matters on its value... Apparently.
But anyways what if Nintendo came out, for example, with Super Metroid for Switch. New box art, a cartridge packed maybe even with a bit of new content like Nintendo usually does all for, you know, $59.99 sitting with the rest of the cases in Gamestop next to Splatoon 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and etc. I know it would feel weird but what if that because the normal thing? Or what if Nintendo or anyone REALLY DID this kind of thing? Sure we wouldn't really want to pay for a game we payed so long ago... But so long ago it was equivalent to what 60 dollars is equivalent today when it launched, right? And not everyone has played it.
Now let us look at an ACTUAL example of this. BETHESDA has been doing that and many of us find it horribly scum-worthy, right? ... Launching DOOM for Switch for 59.99 while it lacks like 60% of the PS4 game that is priced at like 14.99 now... Yuck! Coming out with Skyrim VR for the same price we bought Skyrim... For 5 years in a row prior. Skyrim could probably just have had an update to support VR controllers instead of a brand new full priced game, right? Resident Evil 4 gets ported to everything and the at this point is not even because "It's a gem", but because Capcom loves their money, come on. We know that. But I mean... At least it's usually like 20 dollars every time?
Looking at all of this up there, it does indeed seem indecisive and hypocritical to say "Old games should be full priced" indeed. But the what if it was half priced? Would yo pick up an official Super Metroid for Switch, complete with it's own Switch Advertisements with the Switch Logo, box art, cartridge and trailers etc. as if it's a new game for 29.99?
In standards, we know we can just get Virtual Console on our Wii U or Super Mario World on our 3DS or Crash Bandicoot on our PS3's PSX thingy all for less than 10 dollars.... Probably altogether. XD But would you support this standard of releasing insanely old games, giving them official box art etc. as if it's the next big thing? If it happened, then what? Sure we could be happy we got official case covers and cartridges for games we once loved instead of the horrid thing that Nintendo Online NES Application gives us or the boring PSX/2 classics on our PS3/4 home screen but is it worth it to satisfy our cravings for our deep love for certain things, materialistically or not? (Come on. We know it is just materialism. If we really cared about the game itself THAT much, you know. We would just be satisfied with playing the old games that are easy to play on every chap device these days. XD)
What do you guys think and why?
We know Virtual Console prices are cheap as dirt. Instead of buying that bag of chips, we can get a literal masterpiece from our childhood on our favorite consoles.
... But does anyone agree with me that this is uh... Unfair?
I understand people don't want to really pay a huge price for something they played 15+ years ago but to be honest, not everyone has played it? I also know people don't really want to pay for "Such an old game" because apparently the time period/year a game came out matters on its value... Apparently.
But anyways what if Nintendo came out, for example, with Super Metroid for Switch. New box art, a cartridge packed maybe even with a bit of new content like Nintendo usually does all for, you know, $59.99 sitting with the rest of the cases in Gamestop next to Splatoon 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and etc. I know it would feel weird but what if that because the normal thing? Or what if Nintendo or anyone REALLY DID this kind of thing? Sure we wouldn't really want to pay for a game we payed so long ago... But so long ago it was equivalent to what 60 dollars is equivalent today when it launched, right? And not everyone has played it.
Now let us look at an ACTUAL example of this. BETHESDA has been doing that and many of us find it horribly scum-worthy, right? ... Launching DOOM for Switch for 59.99 while it lacks like 60% of the PS4 game that is priced at like 14.99 now... Yuck! Coming out with Skyrim VR for the same price we bought Skyrim... For 5 years in a row prior. Skyrim could probably just have had an update to support VR controllers instead of a brand new full priced game, right? Resident Evil 4 gets ported to everything and the at this point is not even because "It's a gem", but because Capcom loves their money, come on. We know that. But I mean... At least it's usually like 20 dollars every time?
Looking at all of this up there, it does indeed seem indecisive and hypocritical to say "Old games should be full priced" indeed. But the what if it was half priced? Would yo pick up an official Super Metroid for Switch, complete with it's own Switch Advertisements with the Switch Logo, box art, cartridge and trailers etc. as if it's a new game for 29.99?
In standards, we know we can just get Virtual Console on our Wii U or Super Mario World on our 3DS or Crash Bandicoot on our PS3's PSX thingy all for less than 10 dollars.... Probably altogether. XD But would you support this standard of releasing insanely old games, giving them official box art etc. as if it's the next big thing? If it happened, then what? Sure we could be happy we got official case covers and cartridges for games we once loved instead of the horrid thing that Nintendo Online NES Application gives us or the boring PSX/2 classics on our PS3/4 home screen but is it worth it to satisfy our cravings for our deep love for certain things, materialistically or not? (Come on. We know it is just materialism. If we really cared about the game itself THAT much, you know. We would just be satisfied with playing the old games that are easy to play on every chap device these days. XD)
What do you guys think and why?