I think some of ya'll are overthinking this. There's no mad dash to buy this cause of the deadline, there's a rush to buy them cause they're great games and people want to replay them. Most gamers probably don't even know about the limited availability stuff.
I'm not saying it's in the same ballpark. I was just using those as examples as things that people routinely criticise on here, but in the real world they bring in $$$$. It's because people on the earlier pages were talking about an "era bubble" as if anyone was suggesting this collection was going to sell badly.
Why did everyone say Capcom was anti consumer with the RE and DMC ports then? Same thing, over pricing older games.
Now go look up the cost of a Sunshine disc.
Those were higher priced than the same exact games on other current consoles. That's a little different from this.
Mario 64 isn't even in widescreen. I shouldn't be categorizing a port of Mario 64 from Nintendo in the same class as Sega's careless 4:3 HD port of Sonic Adventure. The game deserves better, and it shouldn't be left in the hands of fan to provide that experience.
They have competitors locking third party content and dlc to one platform, with heavy rumors surrounding entire third party titles and moneyhatting...but we're supposed to be pointing fingers at the company releasing a legacy collection of their own games for a limited six month run, in an industry where most titles have their legs cut out from under them in three.
EA has a strategy to sell madden and FIFA tons every year and they sure are branded as anti consumer.
not for selling the games, for the predatory microtransactions that they implement into them.
When Disney has done it, they always have been called out for it, so...
That's not why it's being review bombed. It's getting destroyed for just being lazy and overpriced.
Yeah, and that's cool. These are incredible deals, but there really is nothing else like this. Games from the GC era release all the time on all 3 consoles and they cost 20-30 dollars. Resident Evil games, Okami, Final Fantasy etc. No one thinks these are a ripoff. Games from the PS3/360/Wii gen tend to cost 30-50 dollars. It's weird to take the absolute best deal and apply it to everything.
Uh, that was even re-released as a Nintendo Selects. That's not what I would call a limited release.
Yea, but in the case of Ratchet and Clank, it was a full blown remake/reboot and even at the time, people were blown away by it being such a good deal at $40 for launch.
Not to mention something as simple as gamecube controller support.
I mean, yeah that was cool, but we got that in place of a new game which I definitely didn't prefer. Still that's one game vs 3. The ports would be 20 a piece which is a little high for Mario 64, standard for Sunshine, and low for Galaxy. I'm just not seeing how this is some massive ripoff compared to 95 percent of the industry.
