Why are VC games so damn expensive?

[BenKenobi88]

tombi123 said:

BenKenobi88 said:

Like superchunk posted: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=16103

Buying VC will likely be cheaper than buying up the same actual games. Of course, you don't have the physical copy...but you did purchase the rights to play the game legally.

1) And think of it as paying to enjoy some nostalgic games...are your favorite games in the world only worth 2 bucks or so to you? I gladly pay the price of a movie ticket for games like Sonic, Mario, and Zelda on Genesis, NES, etc, which gave me great joy when I was younger.

2) If $5 is too much for a game, then as Perrin rudely stated, you might want to get a better-paying job.

1) Well N64 games are almost double the price of a cinema ticket here in the UK. They are not worth 15 bucks to me. I have not played them before so I don't know whether I will like them.

2) Like I stated before, they are $15 not $5. I am 17 years old so I cannot get a better job.

Also your last sentence sounds like Sony PR.

 Yeah my last sentence is pretty much a quote from Perrin Kaplan, and she was pretty bad at PR for Nintendo sometimes.

But I do agree, even if it's not the right way to say it.  $10 as the highest price for a VC game, an N64 game (of which there's less than 10 I think), the rest 5-8 dollars...I don't see how that's expensive...even kids in lower income families can scrap a 5-er now and then. 

You're not meant to own every single game in the VC library...I don't see the huge deal.  $15 is a little bit too much, but hey, you guys get Star Points in the UK, so you can suck it.