curl-6 said:
Apparently there is some resistance to the idea of a modest 2D platformer being a disc release in 2015. The flood of 2D indie games have conditioned some gamers to believe the genre belongs only in $10 digital titles. |
Fortunately that is bullshit and Nintendo doesn't subscribe to that school of thought. I do think that game prices should be more dynamic (like in Japan), but Nintendo also seems to be working towards that, pricing some of their games at $40 (like Kirby).
Overall, I think the complaint of "this game shouldn't be a retail game" really has no place where it is a valid complaint. You may say that a game is light on content for the price, but that is quite a different argument, seeded in retrospective thinking and evaluation of your personal opinion on the value of money (but at that point the argument would be about cost, not about retail vs digital). Even worse is the line of thinking that a genre doesn't deserve to be a retail game...
