Surely that expensive SFX2 risc chip has to be a factor, it was much more advanced than the dsp they had in some cartridges and an improvement on the SFX chip.
It's got to be expensive to make cartridges with that in, for Star Fox I think they wanted to show the super nintendo as competitive for 3D games but at the end of the super nintendo era with a new console coming taking a loss or minimal profit on the game may not have been so logical. Yes its a complete game but also it would have been very expensive to manufacture.
I guess with this classic console version featuring Yoshi's Island they have SFX2 emulation anyway so Star Fox 2 was an easy addition.
I'm a big Starfox fan and looking forward to playing this game. I dabbled with it on emulation but playing it with the right controller and possibly a later build of the game appeals a lot more. I just hope the emulation quality does it justice.
