Wasn't Crash trilogy originally released on PS4 at 30fps? That alone made SM3D all-stars a better collection game. After all Gameplay>Graphics.

This move was critized to death (see here for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2OUVNO3ToY ) and these moves are usually critized, *because* they are working. So you construct a strawmen of double standards, that does not exist in reality.

The only way I could justify doing an emulator, and even then I probably wouldn't on matter of principle, is if I already purchased the games before. I did own 64 and Galaxy, but never purchased Sunshine, so I can not emulate without essentially getting for free what someone spent time and money to make. So either I buy their version of the remasters or don't play it at all. 

You do the typical thing: you treat some people in the fanbase as the whole fanbase. That is the same on other fanbases, other games got critized by some and were highly anticipated by others. The mother of all shady shit, the yearly FIFA and NBA2K-games with Microtransactions and Gold version and whatnot *on top* of a full priced games regularly sell multiple millions. So yes, I am not surprised that Nintendo will sell a lot of this package, even if they employ shady tactics with this limited time shit. Because every fanbase let's the companies get away with this shady shit. Nintendo is not special in this regard.

So, as this thread turned into a fight about how good this compilation is, I give my impression. And it can be summarized as the good, the bad, the ugly.

The good: Whatever people say, three classic games remastered in HD, on a modern device, with updated control schemes, with slightly updated graphics (widescreen in two of them and a few texture upgrades) is a lot of value. That is why the Final Fantasy remasters all sold a lot too. That is why a lot of remasters sell at least decent (depending on how iconic the basic game was in the first place). Nobody who buys this collection is scammed or a Nintendrone or something. It is fine to like the collection. Which doesn't mean the bad stuff should be ignored.

The bad: Well, while the improvements are fine and dandy, it is easy to see how more could've been done. For starters: why is Galaxy 2 missing? The missing widescreen on Mario64 has probably technical issues (games back then there seriously fitted to the hardware). But clearly more work could've been done to improve textures. This is just enough work to not be shitty, but not much more. This is disappointing.

The ugly: And here we are at the point, that Nintendo does embrace all the shady shit that other gaming companies do as well. This limited availability is maybe OK for the physical version - they produce an amount and stop printing more because it is an anniversary thing. But stopping the sales on their digital shop is just outright a shitty practice. There is no way around that, this is outright AA-industry bullshit.

Jim Sterling as usual explains this very well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2OUVNO3ToY

And as usual all this shitty industry bullshit isn't stopping people buying this. As they buy their FIFA and NBA2K each year, as they buy the games with all the microtransactions, full editions, season passes, lootboxes and whatever stuff else. This all hadn't people held back to buy these games filled with shady practices. So nobody should be surprised in the least, that Nintendo gets away with this shit, as every other companies does as well.

Can you point to any technical aspect that was majorly upgraded on this game?

Then you go to outside of VGC where wasn't the point.

I have talked about the fanbase on here, you can look this thread, the other thread about this collection and even your good, bad and ugly and you'll see it.

You can try to detract as much as you want with "turning a part of the fanbase as the whole fanbase" that doesn't really change a thing about the truth that yes Nintendo get away with much more than other companies. Please show me the same level of defense for the yearly titles, mtx, dlc, etc of other companies compared to Nintendo.

Nice! I wish 3D All-Stars wasn't a limited time only kind of thing, though.

You point to some posts in this thread and speak about the Nintendo-fanbase on this site, although the fanbase on this site include me and I am critical of this move. Again: applying actions of single persons to a whole group is a bad practice, as a group is made of individuals, who all think and act differently. If you want to criticize posts of certain people, then directly name then and criticize their posts, not applying their actions to the whole Nintendo-fanbase on this site.

So please stop criticizing the whole fanbase, call out the people and posts that are going wrong. But often enough claims of hypocrisis are actually conflating criticism of user A against company X with praise of user B for company Y, by claiming both users are the same (the magic whatever fanbase) and therefore what user A does is also what user B thinks. So in this example: find the users that praise this collection and criticized similar collections of other companies and call them out.

And yes, other companies get away with shit on this site plenty.

Snore fest... stop pretending that when anyone talks about a fanbase that must mean every single member of the fanbase.

I have criticized and discussed their posts directly as well.

And was multiple people, and read my posts and you'll see it pointed. Like in the thread about the announcement asking if people would buy it was like 2/3 of the pool on buying, so yes when a majority portrays it as ok them it is ok to consider that as "generalization".