@Polley001 Huh. Guess I never noticed before but like, why the heck are all the Pokémon soundtracks like this? Is Nintendo not able to secure the rights to looped Pokémon music or something?

I haven't decided yet, but for €20 I would have preferred a single collection with both games in multiple languages, with online multiplayer. In short, something that justified this price.

Pokémon fans will let them get away with it too. 😂

And the fact that each language is a separate release is nutty.

It’s a shame to see there’s separate games for each European language. I enjoy playing the NSO games in French, but if I buy the French version of this my son won’t understand it, and I’m not paying for it twice.

I rarely subscribe to nso (usually for certain splatfest) so I'm glad I can buy firered separately. I do miss the virtual console releases.

Don't worry I don't buy gkc so I won't share anything about the game even after release

@8bit-Man I mean you could always buy an original copy boxed for £100-150 if you want instead.

@SykoMuffin Done Quicker =/= Rushed

@nessisonett That's like complaining about people buying ebooks. Paying money for a few kilobytes of data? Ridiculous!

The only valid argument I've read somewhere is that these titles could not have been compatible with NSO due to multiples save-states and rewind functions. Too easy to make everything you want with your save, then.

I'm also quite happy to be offered the possibility to buy the game, and not just rent it.

BUT this price is just a joke. 20 bucks for a rom ? Come on, it should be 5, and that's it.

I happily paid the 5 bucks tag for the Xenoblade upgrade, I didn't mind to shovel some money for it. But 20, for a game that old ?

Yeah... no.

@8bit-Man At least you're getting a decent game out of it, I think that puts it over charging $10 for a manual about the system you just bought.

It’s really insane that the game isn’t even included on the cartridge, for a set like this.

Why let people buy a game when they can rent it forever?

Modern gaming. Lots to enjoy, lots to loathe.

It’s not like Nintendo of America have any say in what games come out or in what way, so them doing an FAQ seems a bit pointless.

A “special occasion” is a funny way to say they smelled money.

This might be the most greedy move Nintendo pulled in a long time.
...And the bar was already pretty high.

They've added like 30 new fighters but 0 new levels.

Got tired of playing through the same what... 5 levels for the umpteenth time. Not gonna do it again with 4 new characters. If they release 4 new stages I'll PAY REAL MONEY for that!

Now do an upgrade already!

Wow. This is really some next level greed…

They have the GBA service right there to release this on… And if you must sell it individually, at least put the game on the actual cartridge!

They can rule that out if they want to but it isn‘t smart. Everyone and their mother are into retro gaming. You get full rom sets with almost every chinese emulator device. Nintendo online can‘t compete.

GBC will forever be Nr 1

Just finished remake intergrade. It was fantastic! Looking forward to this.

@a1904 Yeah, people really seem to see a gaming company relaesing a paid game as a personal attack on them. Even though nobody is ever forcing them to play and pay for them. You can even just play the GBA versions, if you still have them, on a GBA.

Very simple, let people who want to enjoy these rereleases enjoy them.

This isn't a vague statement at all, in fact it's surprisingly clear. They didn't need to put this question in their FAQ, and they could easily have given it a non-answer such as "you never know". Instead they pretty much said straight up: No. NSO is what we're giving you now, stop asking for Virtual Console to return. We reserve the right to occasionally re-release games like this or Mario Galaxy for full price as a special event, we're not going to start giving you a stream of cheap simple romdumps, which would cannibalize sales of both "event" games like these and the NSO subscriptions.

To everyone saying to wait for a patch: Ubisoft has no plans to release one

LeafGreen has been preloaded to my Switch 2 Can't wait.

@molkom The differences entirely come down to some changes in which Pokemon are available, and the starters are the same in both versions. The question of which to go with pretty much entirely boils down to which set of exclusives you prefer -

FireRed - Ekans, Oddish, Psyduck, Growlithe, Shellder, Scyther, Electabuzz, Wooper, Murkrow, Qwilfish, Delibird, Skarmory

LeafGreen - Sandshrew, Vulpix, Bellsprout, Slowpoke, Staryu, Magmar, Pinsir, Marill, Misdreavus, Sneasel, Remoraid, Mantine

Just drop some collections on cartridges. An NES collection, a virtual boy collection, etc. Offer a bundle with a controller as an option. Or break it up by series. Just give us some classics on cartridge.

What I learned yesterday is that people will get really angry regardless

@Joriss Jealous! I asked the same, reply was a blank stare

@progx @Debo626 I wouldn't do this if people realised how much they're being taken for idiots.

Would have been nice as part of Switch Online So for someone never playing those, any difference more than starting Pokémon and if so which to go with?

@The_Nintendo_Expat Can Nintendo be trusted for "high effort, excellent new ports" at this point?
I can only imagine the result something worse than leaving well-enough alone.

Added it to my Pokemon folder as soon as I saw it.

I think Xbox studios are being very slow with the switch 2.

When you consider Ubisoft and Capcom, Xbox studios have been rubbish, switch 2 wise.

I think I’m the same as everyone else.
Switch 2 versions please 60FPS better resolution. Then I would buy.

$30 plus tax for this Canadian. That'll be a "no thank you."
But I do have my original LG cart (as well as others) and SP that'll have to be fired up to join in on the fun.
All the power to those that buy it, being able to purchase has been a topic so I am happy for you out there.

Love the idea that it's more fun to pay £17 rather than add it to the online service. They could have done both then those not on the service who like owning stuff still get the game and the gba online subscribers don't feel hard done by. Now that would have been very fun!

It makes sense than TPC/GameFreak wanted actual revenue for their game instead of some small slice of whatever Nintendo earns from Switch Online, however they calculate that and divvy it up couldn't possibly be as much income as an actual sale. More people would obviously pay the $20 up front to own it than the reportedly still dismal number of people willing to pay $80 a year to not own anything (nearly $1k a decade for temporary access to antiques is a niche interest, shocking).

Sad if true. I’d much rather buy individual games I'm interested in.

If you do not want leaks, do not look it up

Yeah, that's definitely a vague statement, and I wouldn't be surprised at anything at this point.

@Euler I honestly doubt it. I really feel like this is specifically a Gamefreak thing, because Gamefreak would rather take a bullet to the head than have a .01% chance of a Pokemon being duped. My bet is that this purely exists because Gamefreak refused to re-release a Pokemon game with Save States and Cloud saves, and then eventually realized "Hey, we can get an extra $20 for this!" I can only see this happening with other Pokemon games. I'd love to be wrong, though.

Meaningless placeholder statement. If this trial balloon sells like hotcakes, you can bet there will be more and possibly a full return to the virtual console (perhaps a dual online subscription-permanent download purchase model).

I get what's being referenced but every time I read "fun" in quotes it sounds like FireRed and LeafGreen are Pokemon's takes on Russian Roulette.

@Rykdrew At 44 you are not exactly the demographic they are looking for. lol Pokemon is made for kids like my Nieces and their friends and while it is okay for people of all ages to enjoy them and as somebody who grew up playing the games and watching the show I still like playing Pokemon games now and play them with my Nieces but these are kids' games. They are not made to draw in an adult audience.

Saying you don't like Pokemon is like saying you don't like Dora the Explorer, Paw Patrol or Bubble Guppies. lol