“Neither of these answers seem to address the question of why the games could not also be part of the Switch Online’s GBA collection… or why the games are priced at $20 each…”
Nintendo:
Because their real answer of “Because you dumb fucks will buy it anyway” wasn’t nice enough for the press lol. Seriously as long as you dumb asses keep buying old ass games from Nintendo for way too much money they will keep letting you do it.
This is the real reason Nintendo is suing emulators and ROM hosts. They JUST realized there is a market for this. Took them 30+ years to figure it out.
I mean, not really. Nintendo has been fairly consistent about rereleasing old titles for many many years now.
I would way rather play on a platform that allows me to save state at any time and as many as I want (Though I guess most of my devices are set up to have 10-20 saves max, but I could set them up for however many I want.)
I mean the game in question is the first of two remakes of Pokemon Red, and (if I remember correctly) the first official re-release of a remake of Red. I’m not going to say all of the releases are the same experience by a long shot, but it’s a little hard to argue they’re only now figuring it out.
If you want to say that it should have been made more available to current platforms sooner then that’s a different argument.
*$20 each, for each language.
TBF these are games that were originally released with separate cartridges for each language, so this isn’t an especially surprising thing.
I remember plenty of GBA titles with language options. I used to buy them on flea markets abroad and didn‘t know a lick of english. I find it absurd that this one wouldn‘t have that option.
Plenty of GBA games had multiple languages on one cartridge. No excuse.
Yes, but not mainline Pokémon games.
Exactly. No excuse back then, even less an excuse now
Especially in Europe.
People complain but they keep buying Nintendo trash so why not
I am part of the problem
Generally speaking, the people complaining are not the people doing the buying.
It sure seems like they are in the case of Nintendo.
Yes i think it’s morally correct to pirate their games
I would have loved like a Mario all Stars of retro Pokemon games. They don’t even have to get fancy with it. Give me like Gen 1-5 and we’re good. Or hell, even just Gen 1-3 and I’d be happy.
The ROM hack Pokemon Unbound is what you’re looking for.
I always thought it would be cool to have a pack of the games that allows trading between the versions, or at least tracking of the pokedex across versions. I’m not crazy enough to play every single version, but if they had every version of every game for several gens, with a central pokedex, it would let the super fans try to completely fill out the dex.
I’ve been trying to fill out the pokedex in home, and i know i’d get a lot of usage out of that. It’d be nice to be able to track it in game rather than having to hop between
OMG, a Pokemon All Stars would be amazing. But I do want them to get fancy with it: with every new game that starts, make me start with a starter as usual, but once I get access to trading, let me pull Pokemon that are below the soft level cap out of my boxes.
Now that you mention fancy features, i wouldn’t mind if they did some stuff with QOL changes. I know some people hate it but i’d love to have the Modern Exp. All for my entire party in everything outside gen 1
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“We think it’ll be fun.”
You know it’s bad when Konami can release GBA roms for a better deal at the exact same price (talking about the Castlevania Advanced Collection).
Obligatory fuck nintendo
Time to pirate FR to play on my phone just as a tiny middle finger to nintendo, who can’t do shit against me in Brazil 🇧🇷 🖕
Oh, let me also play more Palworld, who’s having to fight bullshit patents
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“Cause we love money, lol, fuck you poors.” - Nintendo
$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair…and this certainly isn’t. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.
Nintendo suckss
I would Pay $60 for a switch physical cartridge with all of their GB through GBA Pokemon games, especially if there was a way to trade pokemon with myself. I would still play them all on roms on my other devices, but I would totally buy that cartrage. But I’m not paying $20 for a digital version of just one of them.
