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happydolphin on 06 February 2012
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kitler53 said:
happydolphin said:
kitler53 said:
nope - already own them. also, seeing as the top selling re-releases are GoW collection at 1M and RE4wii at 2M with everything else far far below that ... it's probably not worth the time for most publishers to go into their back catalog for the wiiU. anything less then a year old maybe anything older than that really only has a market value of like $10 now-a-days.

I couldn't afford an HD console, but if they were to bring them to Wii U I would get one or two new, the others I would wait till they lower in price (I'm cheap...). But at 2M sales for RE4 with minimal effort, it's def worth the time. I understand it's an upper cap, but many of them would be between 100k and 1M. Even Super Mario All stars sold 2.66M...

ROI is good here, I disagree kitler.

but RE4 is the exception imo or the best of the best if you will.  take a look at all the other re-releases that have more or less flopped.  financially perhaps they didn't lose money on them but i don't think they made much either.  and like you said...you'd buy one or two of them to which i agree one or two games could probably do well but by and large i'd expect a lot of nothing.

...i mean really, wouldn't you rather be playing one of the new games that actually leverages the wiiU in a new way instead of something dated and old and probably ported in the laziest way possible?

...or put another way, like to admit it or not but game design is getting better every year.  once you get past the nostalgia of it, last generation games are just not as good as current generation games.  hell, early this gen games aren't as good as now gen games.  i expect that to be the case next gen too.

Yep, I understood the RE4 being top game part, take a peak at my post again I italicized it. But I went on to say they can sell between 100K and 1M each ballpark. Let's take a few more example to see.

Core game remasters:

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 God of War Collection PS3 2009 Action Capcom 1.84 0.31 0.06 0.27 2.48
2 Metroid Prime: Trilogy Wii 2009 Shooter Nintendo 0.41 0.18 0 0.06 0.64
3 Metal Gear Solid HD Collection PS3 2011 Misc Konami 0.28 0 0 0.02 0.3
4 Metal Gear Solid HD Collection X360 2011 Misc Konami 0.24 0 0 0.02 0.25
5 MGS HD total                 0.55
6 Serious Sam HD: Gold Edition PC 2010 Shooter CyberFront 0 0 0 0 0.01
7 The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection PS3 2011 Adventure Sony Computer Entertainment 0.26 0.15 0.12 0.08 0.61
8 Metal Gear Solid: The Essential Collection PS2 2007 Adventure Konami 0.23 0.18 0 0.06 0.46
9 Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection PSP 2011 Role-Playing Square Enix 0.07 0.05 0.22 0.04 0.38
10 The Sly Collection PS3 2010 Platform Sony Computer Entertainment 0.25 0.05 0.01 0.04 0.35
11 Final Fantasy XI: Ultimate Collection X360 2009 Role-Playing Square Enix 0.2 0 0 0.02 0.22
12 The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga PS2 2006 Fighting Ignition Entertainment 0.1 0.08 0 0.03 0.2
13 Call of Duty: The War Collection X360 2010 Shooter Activision 0.04 0 0 0 0.04

PSP to PS3 remasters:

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. PS3 2011 RPG Capcom


0.47 0.47
2 God of War: Origins Collection PS3 2011 Action Sony Computer Entertainment 0.21 0.04 0.02 0.03  0.29 

 

Other Classics:

Pos Game Platform Year Genre Publisher North America Europe Japan Rest of World Global
1 Tomodachi Collection DS 2009 Misc Nintendo 0 0 3.67 0 3.67
2 Pac-Man Collection GBA 2001 Puzzle Atari 2.07 0.77 0.05 0.05 2.94
3 Sonic Mega Collection Plus PS2 2004 Misc Sega 1.54 1.14 0 0.22 2.9
4 Super Mario All-Stars: Limited Edition Wii 2010 Platform Nintendo 1.09 0.49 0.92 0.16 2.66
5 Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection PS3 2009 Misc Sega 0.99 0.67 0 0.31 1.97
6 A Collection of Activision Classic Games for the Atari 2600 PS 1998 Misc Activision 0.76 0.52 0 0.09 1.37
7 Sega Genesis Collection PSP 2006 Misc Sega 0.51 0.51 0 0.32 1.34
8 Sonic Classic Collection DS 2010 Platform Sega 0.48 0.52 0 0.12 1.12
9 Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection X360 2009 Misc Sega 0.53 0.43 0 0.11 1.07
10 Namco Museum Battle Collection PSP 2005 Misc Sony Computer Entertainment 0.73 0.17 0 0.15 1.04
11 Oshare Majo Love and Berry: DS Collection DS 2006 Misc Sega 0 0 1.01 0 1.01
12 Puzzler Collection DS 2008 Puzzle Ubisoft 0.15 0.76 0 0.04 0.95
13 Midway Presents Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 PS 1996 Misc GT Interactive 0.52 0.36 0 0.06 0.94
14 Sonic Mega Collection Plus XB 2004 Misc Sega 0.61 0.26 0 0.04 0.91
15 Street Fighter Anniversary Collection PS2 2004 Fighting Capcom 0.32 0.25 0 0.08 0.66
16 Nicktoons Collection: Game Boy Advance Video Volume 1 GBA 2004 Misc Majesco 0.46 0.17 0 0.01 0.64

(Trimmed due to row overload)

There are many others, but I'm not sure if they've released, if vgchartz tracked their numbers, or if they just faired very poorly. They list as 0.00 sales, and many HD collections are releasing this year, so it's hard to judge... But from the successful ones above, it looks clean.