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bigtakilla on 14 August 2014
Smear-Gel said:
Angelus said:
If anything is a Nintendo cash grab, it's the fact they they constantly release two different versions of all their pokemon games to force completionists to spend more money lol

I'd agree with you 10 years ago, but the social aspect of pokemon and things like wifi has made it easy to get everything from trading, which was thier original intention.

Pretty much this. If anyone has 1 friend this is literally a non issue. Even in the days of Red and Blue every gameboy had a link cable that would let you trade pokemon. Unless Angelus is talking about collecting cartridges, his point only applies to people with no friends or brothers/sisters.



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Viper1 on 14 August 2014
Aielyn said:
Wind Waker HD wasn't a remaster, it was a remake. They altered the game in a few different ways, they overhauled the graphics system, and they extensively upgraded the game. Remasters are basically the same game, in the same engine, but with higher resolution textures, etc.

People don't criticise TLOU:R for being a remaster. They criticise it for being a remaster of a game released a year ago. Wind Waker was released more than 10 years before Wind Waker HD.

And as others have said above me, nobody has criticised Sony's HD collections. There's nothing wrong with updating games that have drifted into history with a graphically-boosted re-release. Happens all the time. Heck, even if they don't boost the graphics or change the gameplay at all, it's fine - it's a re-release. On the other hand, releasing it on the PS3, and then having it announced as an improved remaster less than a year later, meaning that people are forced to rebuy it if they want the better-quality version, is a money-grab. They wanted to make people pay twice for the game.

It's not that they released a PS4 version a year later. It's that they hid the existence of the PS4 version (which must have been in development at the time that the PS3 version released) until people had bought the PS3 version in droves. THAT was the cash grab. Not the release of the PS4 version, but the hiding of the PS4 version until everyone had bought the PS3 version.

Everybody needs to read this post.

It has all you need.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

Anfebious on 14 August 2014

It's funny to see how these kind of price arguments have no meaning to me. *sigh*

Why wasn't I born in a first world country?



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sc94597 on 14 August 2014

I know the video game industry is an oligopoly and all, but certainly there is some level of supply and demand price-taking involved. Nintendo isn't going to price a remake below the market equilibrium that the used gamecube version sells for ($35.) I think as Aielyn mentioned, the issue is that Sony never mentioned a PS4 version of TLoU until everybody bought the PS3 version.



RealGamingExpert on 14 August 2014
Anfebious said:
It's funny to see how these kind of price arguments have no meaning to me. *sigh*

Why wasn't I born in a first world country?

Because life is a lottery!



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ohmylanta1003 on 14 August 2014
Kyuu said:
MohammadBadir said:
Wasn't it like 50$ or something?


https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-161255-The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Wind-Waker-HD-Wii-U

https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-154414-New-Super-Mario-Bros-U-Wii-U

https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-154353-Super-Smash-Bros-Wii-U

 

The three of them retail at full price here in Australia so I assumed it costs $60 in the US.

Australia generally charges more for games. It's $50 in the U.S..



I bet the Wii U would sell more than 15M LTD by the end of 2015. He bet it would sell less. I lost.

bigtakilla on 14 August 2014
Viper1 said:
Aielyn said:
Wind Waker HD wasn't a remaster, it was a remake. They altered the game in a few different ways, they overhauled the graphics system, and they extensively upgraded the game. Remasters are basically the same game, in the same engine, but with higher resolution textures, etc.

People don't criticise TLOU:R for being a remaster. They criticise it for being a remaster of a game released a year ago. Wind Waker was released more than 10 years before Wind Waker HD.

And as others have said above me, nobody has criticised Sony's HD collections. There's nothing wrong with updating games that have drifted into history with a graphically-boosted re-release. Happens all the time. Heck, even if they don't boost the graphics or change the gameplay at all, it's fine - it's a re-release. On the other hand, releasing it on the PS3, and then having it announced as an improved remaster less than a year later, meaning that people are forced to rebuy it if they want the better-quality version, is a money-grab. They wanted to make people pay twice for the game.

It's not that they released a PS4 version a year later. It's that they hid the existence of the PS4 version (which must have been in development at the time that the PS3 version released) until people had bought the PS3 version in droves. THAT was the cash grab. Not the release of the PS4 version, but the hiding of the PS4 version until everyone had bought the PS3 version.

Everybody needs to read this post.

It has all you need.

And is exactly why people will completely ignore that post, sadly.



Wright on 14 August 2014
Anfebious said:
It's funny to see how these kind of price arguments have no meaning to me. *sigh*

Why wasn't I born in a first world country?


Don't you dare imply Spain is better.



Viper1 on 14 August 2014
bigtakilla said:
Viper1 said:

Everybody needs to read this post.

It has all you need.

And is exactly why people will completely ignore that post, sadly.

Too true.

 

Too true.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

painmaster212 on 14 August 2014
bigtakilla said:
Viper1 said:
Aielyn said:
Wind Waker HD wasn't a remaster, it was a remake. They altered the game in a few different ways, they overhauled the graphics system, and they extensively upgraded the game. Remasters are basically the same game, in the same engine, but with higher resolution textures, etc.

People don't criticise TLOU:R for being a remaster. They criticise it for being a remaster of a game released a year ago. Wind Waker was released more than 10 years before Wind Waker HD.

And as others have said above me, nobody has criticised Sony's HD collections. There's nothing wrong with updating games that have drifted into history with a graphically-boosted re-release. Happens all the time. Heck, even if they don't boost the graphics or change the gameplay at all, it's fine - it's a re-release. On the other hand, releasing it on the PS3, and then having it announced as an improved remaster less than a year later, meaning that people are forced to rebuy it if they want the better-quality version, is a money-grab. They wanted to make people pay twice for the game.

It's not that they released a PS4 version a year later. It's that they hid the existence of the PS4 version (which must have been in development at the time that the PS3 version released) until people had bought the PS3 version in droves. THAT was the cash grab. Not the release of the PS4 version, but the hiding of the PS4 version until everyone had bought the PS3 version.

Everybody needs to read this post.

It has all you need.

And is exactly why people will completely ignore that post, sadly.


QFT. Read this everyone then close the topic as it has everything needed to counter the OP's poor argument.