SQ is the one to blame on this. I don't know why you keep blaming Nintendo

Just checked the Google Play store and Secret of Mana sells for $8.99 so if that is coming with 3 games of assuming similar value (I would say they are worth probably $5 to be honest) then the game should not cost more than $20. $45 is such a rip-off.

Hasn't Square had a reputation for some time now of "doing the most" with their pricing???

Don't forget that they are adding online coop to this, which adds a lot of value to Seiken Densetsu 2 and 3, since the games have a lot of focus on coop play. And also consider it is a physical copy on a system with retail and licensing fees (this would add something like $12-15 to the price) unlike the Google Play store. 

So using your $5 (average) estimate that would be $15 + $12 = $27, with online mode the extra $13 for what will probably be a $40 price in the United States, seems worth it. 

If it sells in good quantities the price is of course justified and at least if you buy the collection you can then legitimately run an emulator on pc and play the games at 4k or with 3D graphics. Yes simple graphics like this still look good on 3D tv's.

I certainly wouldn't pay this mainly because its not the type of games I enjoy anyway.

I do wonder how much of a cashcow the Switch can be before its library of old overpriced games becomes hugely negative and a reason not to buy the console. I'm old enough to remember when new consoles got new games that hadn't been seen before. Not just one title but 4 or 5 with launch and then regular new games every month. Even if they were multiformat they were pretty much released at the same time on different formats. As a potential Switch buyer I can honestly say there are 0 games at the moment I would want to own and only Mario Odyssey on the horizon as a potential desirable title for me. Never before have I had so little desire to buy a Nintendo console. This announcement makes me feel so out of touch with current Nintendo fans. Sales figures will show if this is popular but it looks near enough impossible to be unprofitable. I wonder how small the cartridge will be in capacity. 1GB seems about 8x bigger than required even allowing for the emulator files.

Exciting, but are these all just straight up ports?

Would love to have the physical version of this. C'mon Squeenix, you have to localise this! And follow up with a Soulblazer/Illusion of Gaia/Terranigma collection because damn it!

People do complain quite often about pricing of PS2 games. $15 is widely criticized. Even then, those PS2 classics at least have things like trophy support.

The reason why Nintendo is criticized for pricing on virtual console is that they're always more expensive than their competition (not to mention you have to purchase them multiple times per console space). N64 games should be $7, not $10. SNES games should be $5, not $8. NES games should be $2-3. The extra push behind it is that the files you download on VC are just straight ROMs. There's no extra work done to them, just publisher ensuring they have the license.

You can say that if its digital only but if its physical its a huge value

omg OMG I need this :O please please come to the west T-T