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Since I already have it on the DS, I can hold out for a potential physical release I suppose.

I try not to reward theft. I realize the industry is full of it, it's why I try to stick with the real thing good or bad.

For whatever reason, as I'm looking at these offerings at those prices... yawnnn... I'm underwhelmed.

@CharlieGirl Same, I have it on so many systems as it is that getting it on Switch was only because I was enojoying collecting one master collection of retro games. If it's not all actually on the cart then I might as well go back to something like playing Sonic on the DS or Genesis.

"Irritating performance issues, at least pre-launch"
Is something I dread seeing as it's becoming all to common for games to launch and get a day one or near day one patch. I'm starting to think this is intentional so that when they close down the servers for updates i'm stuck with a dud physical copy.

@Tharsman I have had several games just show up out of the blue with no notification. The most recent being Kotor 2 and NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection 2. Not sure what the difference would be, but I don't receive notifications more often than I do.

Pre-Ordered on Amazon, not even sure they have a pre-order bonus or not. I think I looked and they didn't, but honestly I'm buying it for the game not more junk to sit around my office. Not that it's not neat for about 5 minutes, but after that I find it just gets filtered into a drawer somewhere.

So am I missing something or is this marketing at its finest. When you look that the standard collection it list all 7 DLC’s for $40. Then the collection classic is the game, two cases and 7 DLC’s for $74.00. So…. Was this done in to make it look like you get way more in the classic collection? Why are we not listing the game in the standard collection… oh wait.. then I would realize I’m paying almost $35.00 for two extra boxes. Looking back, both the two more expensive list the “Physical Edition” of the game, So I guess I’m led to believe the that $40.00 has no game, just some DLC.

I was aiming to give it a 9, but lowered to an 8 for a few reasons. First as i'm someone who has very much loved this series and solved both 1&2 on the GBA i'm a bit biased i'm sure. But anyway,
1. $60 for basically a simple reskin of two GBA games is a bit much. Should have been $40.00
2. Simple game like this should be locked at 60 FPS. Also considering they have had forever to do this due to it being delayed for so long
3. Missed opportunity to give us a few extras to reviatlize our interest in what could be coming down the pipe at a later date. Just doing to straight port with some graphics updates isn't much
4. while i'm not sure it "bothers" me, the gameboard table design isn't a plus in any way. Maybe a small negative as it's just weird.

With all that said, I love Advance Wars so i'm sure it's going to get plenty of play from me.

I have a list of games i've had problems with, all were tried within a month tops of the day they were released.
TMNT Shredders Revenge
Into The Breach
Crosscode
Eastward
Subnautica -says it can't collect for the region i'm in. Although it's 100% a cart bought here in the US at a major retailer.

I have a list here running on this issue. I guess I'll be adding Advance Wars to it later today.

@Krambo42 I was thinking the exact same thing. Went from a day one to a sale purchase for me.

Wasn't a game I ever got into, and not a single review yet. Not sure if a pick up of this is worth the $60.00 or wait and hope to get it cheaper later on?

Even though I have solved them both on the GBA, still going to pick this up. Two of the games that have held my attention the most for a long time.

I saw it up for pre-order and had my chance. Passed as I already have the lite, regular and Oled switch versions. Just don't see the need for another especially because I honestly don't think it looks that good.

@RendoFonzarelli
You have no idea how close that was to what I was about to type. I'm glad i'm not the only one.

Gonna be honest, that's the worst selection of on sale games I think i've ever seen.

I count three, but I guess it's really five. two I got from my wife and son, promptly traded them in. For my three, I still have them all
1. original black one
2. Year of Luigi XL
3. New 3ds XL Monster Hunter 4 limited edition
The two I got rid of were just normal red and uh.... I can't even remember the other one, I just know I had it.

I can barely keep my eyes open looking at that "deal"...

Honestly I find the rewards worthless. So worthless I have stopped looking at them and just let my points expire. Either they are something I can make for myself in 10 minutes or something worth 3.00 with a 5.00 shipping fee.

It's amazing to me how companies can bungle their releases this much. Ok, if I wasn't in front of my computer with a way to know to jump on immediately as soon as they release their game, I miss out. Ok... well, I guess i'll keep right on missing out. There is a point where this stuff just gets stupid.

For everyone talking about the VF game, have you played it? It's really not good.

Ok. I gotta try it. Not sure why... but yep.. I gotta.

Got my physical copy on order... I'm feeling good.

@Ralizah You can pick up volume one and two on LRG right now.

@NotArmani I was thinking the same thing. And a physical announced on day one.

Still waiting for that sale on the Arcade 2nd Stadium.

@GetterImpact
I know, that's what I was saying. I bought a lot of the games that ended up turning into volume one, and then bought the physical release. I got one or two of the ones that will end up on the second volume and told myself to not buy anymore digitally as I know when I see it physical I'll pick it up. Hence, physical or it didn't happen. I have a bad tendancy of buying them digitally and then physically on most things. Companies know the double dip happen so they hold off on physical releases.

Physical release or it didn't happen.

1. Saturn
2. Dreamcast
3. Master System
4. I'm happy

Maybe this explains why I'm waiting a month after release to get my pre-order

@Big_Fudge Dead Cells is the top entry on page two.

I'm gonna sit right here until I get some news on this... Well, ok maybe not. But I'd sure like to....

Waiting for the physical release.

I'll hold out for the physical release on this.

I've been told by G4 that G4 is not for me. Guess I'll pass.

Would love this on switch. Still, I may have to give this a try.

Looking forward to this one.

That seems like a lot of money for a bunch of broken games. I must be getting stingy in my old age as I just don't see the value. Oh well, crazy me.

None, i'm passing on the expansion pass. Value is just not there and I have other ways to play these same games.

@westman98 I can agree with that, I would never think they would “double” the price. But increase it, sure why not. Maybe they will offer the GBA titles and give it a price bump to make them closer. That way they can say “hey look, we gave you GBA and GBA color for only a $10 price increase… we are awesome” But then people would start to look and go hmmm for only a little more I can get the whole pkg. Either way, I have no horse in this race so I’ll just sit back and watch the show.

@Mattock1987 Unless it was in this thread it wasn’t me. I just signed up a day ago to post on this article.

@HammerGalladeBro Not sure where you from, in my area they still sell Genesis systems in stores. As for the Sega Classics collection on switch, I own both the physical copy and digital copy and honestly have very little issue with either. I have seen post talking about the input issue, I've really not seen it to the point it's an issue.

@Ludovsky That's pretty darn good IF you play Animal Crossing. I personally don't and pay for the family plan for my family. Also, I will hold final judgement on that until I see if the primary or everyone would get the DLC or not?

Nope. Value proposition is way off. Don't play Animal Crossing so no value there. Plus, with the fact it's like 130% higher than the base subscription which gives you online play and back-ups....I'm good without it.

@The-Nate I just pre-ordered my A500 about a week back. Man I miss the Amiga. Still have nightmares about coding on the 64 though... It was always Vic 20 and Amiga 500 for me.

@Mattock1987 I don't think that's the case here though, trust me when I say money is not the problem. I personally have an illness where I love to buy stuff way more than I should. Having said that I can at least justify most purchases in my mind as the value compared to the market offerings is there. This honestly is not. Again it has nothing to do with people being cheap, it has to do with Nintendo taking a dump in a box and selling it for top price saying "we can do this" we're Nintendo. My two cents at least.

Take out the online play and cloud back-ups from the base plan.
Family plan with no online play or no back-ups just nes and snes games at $35.00 yearly.. do you think people would pay for that? I'm betting the number that would, would shrink drastically.
Expansion for Genesis and N64 for $45 yearly and we are supposed to pay for that. My point is, the base plan gives you actual things people need/want beyond some old emulated games, and people even thought that was pushing it based on the quality of the service.

@UmbreonsPapa You hit the nail on the head... it's not about the games it's about the value they are offering. I do own all kinds of systems with these games, and yes I can play them other ways than NSO. Heck there are a lot of games I probably have at least 5 options to legally play them on. So the issue, if Nintendo offered a service or option that was priced consumer friendly or fair there would be no complaints. I'd gladly pick it up and own a 6th way to play the games they offer, but... their pricing for what they are offering is way out of wack with their previous offerings as well as compared to what the competition is charging for their services/offerings. I am a Nintendo fan, just like I like games on my Xbox and my PlayStation but at some point you have to look at what each offers and the value of it. This is where Nintendo has lost it's mind. The NSO service sucks and is outdated compared to the competition and as of now they have priced themselves squarely shoulder to shoulder with MS and Sony. They simply need to do better and people are voicing that.

Personally I already have most of the games in many other formats, Ie.. original consoles, mini's, other collections on other systems... so my $35.00 family plan was mostly for the internet gaming and back-ups for the family ( peer to peer for the win :/ ). I wonder how many other people are in the same boat and will be passing. I always considered it like $35.00 yearly = $20.00 for the online and $7.50 for each console. Adding $45 a year for two additional consoles ($22.50 each) seems a bit off. Now as was stated, if Nintendo had a good track record of releasing games (not a trickle every so often)... oh heck, it would still be too much.

@Mauzuri Which would beg the question, then why go with the Genesis? Considering they have ample amounts of their own consoles they could use, it seems dumb to add Sega and make your customers upset. If this is the case I'd say, ummm Sega, sorry but no. We'll just let people buy the Genesis collection and all the Sega Ages games already on our console.