Nintendo's unrealistic pricing for old-school platformers et al.

[Screamapillar]

happydolphin said:

Screamapillar said:

happydolphin said:

Screamapillar said:
Super Paper Mario is by no-means an "old-school platformer". You must have never played it. It's like a 30 hour game, and there are tons of things to do outside the main story.

It's a retro offering, that's what I meant. It certainly did not require the same size team as to make Galaxy I hope you wouldn't debate that.......

"retro"?  It came out in 2007. 

I don't think it's accurate or fair to these games to overly generalize and say that because of their art style or genre that they somehow have less value and should be priced differently.  That's very elitist. 

When I call a game a retro game, I'm talking about a recent game with a "retro" concept or theme or experience, in this case 2D Mario. So if it released in 2007 that serves the idea.

I don't think it's elitist, I think it's pragmatic and realistic, and quite reasonable. I think it's pretentious to price a cheap game at a hefty price.

When games like that were cutting-edge, that was understandable. Not today.

So if Retro Studios had a budget of $15 million to make DKCR, and it took 2 1/2 years with a team of 50+ people, they should only price it at $10 instead of $50 because the camera is programmed at a fixed perspective from the side of the level and not from over the shoulder?  I don't understand your logic at all.

Do Mario Kart games have less value because they're extremely short games to complete and require relatively little money to develop?  I've gotten hundreds of hours of enjoyment with my friends playing Mario Kart Double Dash than I get with Jak II or Kingdom Hearts, where I play it for 30-35 hours and then when I've finished the game I never touch it again.  That's more than $1 an hour to play a single-player game with a story, versus a fraction of 1 cent per hour to play Double Dash for years after it comes out.  Is that not value in your eyes?