I'm not a Pokémon fan, far from it. But seeing Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen on Switch after years of the game costing over $100 used is nice to see. I still think the games should've been cheaper, though. GBA games on Wii U were $10 and that was only 13 years after the GBA released. We're now 12 years further and the price has doubled compared to on Wii U.
Just for reference, Super Mario Bros. 3 on Wii U was rereleased 25 years after its original release, which cost $5 on that platform. I think these games should've been about $7-10 individually in order to be priced appropriately. $15 would be stretching it, and $20 is without a doubt too much. Especially considering you only get the game in one language for that price.
I don't want to deter anyone from enjoying the games, though. It's great that they're finally officially released on a newer platform. But The Pokémon Company either should've priced them lower or should've released the games on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. I do get why they might've wanted to avoid the latter, so a standalone release makes sense, but when you can get access to hundreds of retro games for one year with dozens of great games included in the selection at the same price (or even lower in a family subscription), it makes it hard to justify pricing the game at $20.
Posted by WorldLove_Gaming
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I’m all for Nintendo offering retro games to own and not rent, but this is too expensive for a single GBA game.
222 games you don’t own though, I wish we had the option to actually purchase them.
You forget GBA is only available for expansion pass so it would be 60 per year for games vs 20 dollars and actually owning them without a paid subscription, I’d rather buy them and not lose them with online
It should have been less, yes. But knowing the Pokemon company, it could have been so much worse. Like $40 for each. Or $40-$60 for the bundle with no way to buy just one for less. Etc etc.
They cost proportionally the same as the 3DS GBC rereleased costed (10€ when the common GBC price was 5€)
Also, these are piecemeal releases, not something you need to pay yearly like NSO.
This is getting tiresome.
One’s an outright purchase, one’s a subscription.
Nintendo alone doesn’t set the prices. Evidence would suggest the Pokemon Company would largely be the ones who set prices higher than we prefer more often than not.
Tbf this is cheaper than actually buying the original game, but it would’ve been better if they made trading online rather than local
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll be bumping up the price on the NSO subscriptions momentarily. 😔
Hi for one I’m really glad it’s actually available for purchase and not locked behind a subscription based online service. I fundamentally believe that all of the games that are in Nintendo switch online should also be optionally purchasable.
I it just going to be the original GBA game or is it a remaster?!
I think both games together at 20 would have been more than fine. 20 per game, plus selling languages separately is dumb. I get that every language is a different rom but they have the technology to include them all in one app man.
At the very least there should have been a bundle of both games for 30.
People always on here bitching about costs of video games when they’ve actually gone down over the years compared to inflation
Everyone complained about not being able to purchase games individually vs NSO… now they let you and people are complaining.
Idk why everyone is complaining. $20 for one GBA game is MILES better than being sucked dry via subscriptions.
I hope they’ll release more games on the eshop so I could finally retire my 3DS virtual console. I hate the fact that old games are locked behind subscription service. I don’t care how cheap it is. I don’t want to pay indefinitely. I want to pay once. NSO is a poopy service compared to Virtual console.
Have you ever actually used NSO to play emulated games? It’s fucking terrible. I’d rather have the game playing natively and having access to Home for $20 than have NSO for free.
Yes it’s too expensive, but I feel at this point people should not be shocked that Nintendo overpriced their software.
Again like I commented earlier today all of these issues would matter less if they just made it so all the NSO games could be purchased separately while still being on the service for people who just want multiple games at once
Have you seen how much the FireRed goes for to own the GBA cartridge?😜
If they have the option of connecting to Pokemon home to transfer your Pokemon across, I’ll be fine with the price, because it’ll actually have some effort put in to make it worthwhile. If it’s just 100% a port and it’s just like playing it on NSO, I’ll be annoyed about the price
Wow, even r/casualnintendo is starting to criticize Nintendo.
You’re right by the way. On Wii U, you could own a Wii game with 20$ like Metroid Prime Trilogy but now they want people to pay the same amount for a remake of GameBoy game?
Locking the games behind a subscription service would be much worse than them being twenty bucks each.