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The difference is that a lot of people, I am pretty confident, are willing to pay 20 bucks for Fire Red and not probably not for Castlevania Aria of Sorrow or Drill Dozer. 

Speaking for myself personally, I don't see it as "GBA games should cost X" I see it as "how much enjoyment am I gonna get out of this". 

I just said this at the article, but FRLG are literally better than SwSh and SV, they are literally better, and cost 1/3 of their price. Maybe we should be asking why the new games cost more than $20.

Last post and then I'm outta here: NS2 sales figures have been released for January (according to VGChartz estimates). Top selling system WW!! Sold ~191.3 thousand units per week, which is roughly identical to NS1's performance of ~192.6 thousand— keep in mind that one of these systems has a brand new 3D Mario and 3D Zelda on it at a price tag of $150USD less, in a far more stable economy.

Nintendo Switch 2 continues to track along very well. We are past the early "Switch 2 Hype" period of sales, and it seems everything is leveling out very nicely especially for how much Nintendo is asking for software and hardware. Very good sign for things to come!

Good for them. That doesn't make it any less of a rip off. It's a very old game that they haven't even ported to run natively on the Switch: it's running on emulation and they haven't changed a single thing about the original release. It's a simple ROM (probably with the legendary events unlocked) + a GBA Emulator. They don't even adress the many flaws within the original FRLG. The work behind it is less than minimal: a single person could have it done in less than a week.

No, it's not worth 20 dollars. And millions of people purchasing it at that price won't change that fact.

You have it absolutely backwards.

The price people are willing to pay for something is literally the way we determine how much something is worth. If there is a readily available market of people willing to buy a product for 20 dollars, it is worth 20 dollars. That is the factual part. Welcome to the free market.

That you think that the free market is somehow wrong is the subjective part.

But, we can discuss that too. 

As a person who just wants to play a game and enjoy it, why does it matter to me that it's old? Why should I care that it is running on an emulator? Why should I care whether it was made by a team of 1 person or a million people? 

If I think that, out of the ways I could spend my 20 dollars, this is the one that will bring me the most enjoyment, why should I not plunk down my money?