I've been hearing since 2017 that Nintendo should "stop being greed" and offer their classic games for purchase again instead of tieing them to a subscription. Of course as soon as they do that people complain, are you surprised? I'm not surprised. They just can't win.

Offering them for purchase outside a sub is a good thing. But it should be in the Sub as well.

So they could easily win, in sub and available separately too, it's quite simple.

They're having their cake and eating it too. Now they want subscribers to their expansion pack to pay extra for a GBA game lmao.

Just go the Sony route. All ps1 games are on the sub, all PS1 games are available separately for like $8 too. What's more you bought a PS1 game on PSP/PS3 20 years ago you get the PS4/PS5 version for free.

Ok, and how much do you think the sub price should go up to match a game that you can purchase separately? Sony's thing cost much more than NSO. And yeah, NSO was Nintendo's way of finally not having to port their classic titles to every new console again and not making we purchase them again. The whole NSO catalog was available on NS2 from day 1.

They need to compensate for the ram prices some way :) 

Charging 20 dollars for a GBA ROM without any additional features except Pokémon Home compatibility is being 200% greedy. Especially when GBA were 8 dollars each on the Wii U eShop. There's nothing that justifies this.

If they did both, they would actually win :D

Subscribers get access for free. 
Or you can choose not to subscribe and pay for them outright.

This is how Sony/MS do it lol

What I will defend is pricing here. I think its fair to respect your legacy and not give things away for super cheap just because its old. $20 is not a lot. And this coming from someone who often complains about the lack of discounts and variable pricing.  At $19.99 though that better be a flawless emulation

You say it's a fair price in the beginning, but your last sentence seems to contradict that. It's like you're saying: "20 dollars is a lot, so they better justify it by at least giving you flawless emulation".

€20 for a 22 year old handheld game is crazy.

More the point that some of the emulation faults on NSO I overlook a little bit because its not a dedicated release people have individually paid for. If it is however, I really expect certain things to be improved, whether it be lag or certain levels/FX not rendering as intended. Unlikely to rear its head for a GB game but I've had noticed it with the N64 offerings, including frame drops etc.

GBA emulation on NSO is actually quite excellent (unlike N64 and Gamecube). It passes the AGS test (a hardware check to see if things are working correctly on the GBA), something not even the current main mainstream unofficial emulator (mGBA) can do.

Now, since FRLG is gonna be a standalone release made by The Pokémon Company, it's yet to be seen if they are gonna use the same emulator or something different which could potentially be worse than NSO (it would be VERY impressive if it was similar quality or better).