I'm glad they actually made some changes and aren't just lazily emulating the original at a higher resolution but I was hoping for a full remastered trilogy for $60. $40 for just the first game is a bit of an ask. I mean even Activision offered the entire Crash trilogy remade from scratch for $40. Activision is beating you on value.

It was $28 to get the trilogy on the WiiU Eshop. Now $40 for just one remastered... But I'm happy it has finally arrived.

It's using Unreal Engine 4 apparently

I will buy the physical version. 

I can't find any verification on that, can you provide a source?

I saw a tweet from dataminers, I'll try to find a source

I would love to see F-Zero GX get the same "remastered" treatment.

I wonder if the "digital release first" thing is going to become more common for Nintendo. 

The truth is, digital release makes Nintendo more money, they get an extra $10 per game sold at least over a retail version, so it's a clever way to boost the profit margin on a game. 

Think I might give this a go later tonight. Never played Metroid Prime so will be an interesting experience. Hope the controls aren't too weird for me considering it wasn't originally a dual analog shooter like I'd imagine.

A nice filler for March, but I am not buying inferior versions of games that I already have.

Inferior how?

The Wii pointer aiming is still the best way to play these games so I guess that's what he meant.