| Illusion said: Ogre Battle 64 is a great game, but it has been released on Wii VC/Wii U eShop in the past. I just can't give kudos to this. The truth is that the Wii VC had a much better selection of retro titles than the Wii U had and the Wii U somehow has a better selection than the Switch currently has. I really want to see Nintendo do something new and bring us into the GCN era with their online service releases. I simply do not understand why this hasn't been done. The collectables market is scalping people with $300 price tags for games like Fire Emblem Path of Radiance and $100+ for a load of other Gamecube titles (especially RPGs). Nintendo can help push this demand down at least a bit by actually offering people these games at a reasonable price. I know people have the Dolphin emulator running on the Switch. Is it that complex to get reasonable GCN performance on the Switch or is it just Nintendo being lazy? |
I know I keep repeating this ad nauseum, but it bares saying again: the IP holders of the greatest hits of retro games have realized there's more to be made in selling us old games in the form of ports/remakes/remasters/compilations rather than putting them on a subscription service, and the games we do get either cost Nintendo a pretty penny to license or are games they don't care enough about or don't see as worthy.
I see it as both a good and bad thing. On one hand, I'd rather have enhanced ports/remakes of things like Squeenix RPGs (the NES Dragon Warrior games nonwithstanding) I can buy individually or compilations like Mega Man/Contra/Castlevania that give insane value for multiple old games, especially when on sale. Games that I can actually own and won't lose if I cancel the subscription. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder how many games are now being held hostage because the IP holder thinks that it will one day do something else with it.
I know that there are examples that run against my opinion (I'm not stating this as official or absolute truth, just going off of the trend I see) like Blaster Master, Joe & Mac, Wild Guns Reloaded and so on, but those games aren't nearly as big as things like Street Fighter 2, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy.
