You do know that both Microsoft and Sony usually ask for extra content for late ports?  I'm not sure how you can hold this against the developers.  So they throw in an easy to program hidden boss fight on those platforms, so what?  They're still working on free additional content, they're still doing things on Nintendo platforms, like Shovel Knight 3DS themes.

It's taking them a year just to make a boss character playable...

They're a studio of less than ten people that was flat broke a month before they released the game.  They obviously have a ton of things they're working on, such as getting the game on other platforms and producing those stretch goals.  They have to generate revenue, that's the life's blood of any business, so I can't fault them a bit for getting those ports into the wild as quickly as possible.

How hard can it be to port an 8-bit game?

Plus the additional content and handling all business and promotional matters yourself?  I don't know.  Do you?

I meant the people who supported it on kickstarter (pc gamers/Nintendo fans).

I want both Link and Samus in there. These games were released during the 8-bit era.

Why do you complain about this in this thread?

It's not like you think the game is any good to begin with.

Sticking up for the Nintendo/PC fans who liked it. It's called empathy.

Plus Link or Samus in the game would make it automatically better.

Because they're Nintendo characters...  It's not that the game would be better with them. It's because it's those characters. Nintendo characters. And those make a game good to you because they're Nintendo characters. Not because the game has merit. Remove them, put other characters just as cool, or even cooler and more original, and nope... It's not a Nintendo character, so they don't have as much merit and don't make the game better.

I see. This attitude falls in line with what you think of reviewers.

Whole lot of projecture going on here. I never said the game was bad, I said it was unremarkable and did nothing new. This game copies pretty much every element from 8-bit classics and puts it in one game (mega man, Zelda II, Super Mario Bros., Ducktales, etc.).

So yeah, an actual cameo from one of those 8-bit classics would greatly enhance the game. I love easter eggs, secrets, references and cameos in games.

You don't seem to understand what Shovel Knight is about. Maybe you haven't played it (and that would make this conversation pointless) or maybe it flew right over your head...

It would be an understatement to say that the game is the way it is because of Nintendo and other companies during the 8-bit era.