@LikelySatan Well I'll definitely not convince anyone if I don't try. The concern is, if people just accept it, this becomes the norm, and then any Gameboy game ported to the Switch costs $20.
@LikelySatan it's not just to feel right, I'm a big fan of retro games, and feel it's important that people have access to play them, but charging this for a single Gameboy game just seems unfair and will exclude people from playing it. Yes, I don't need to buy it, and won't be, but that doesn't make it ok and doesn't mean I shouldn't voice my opinion. This is the comment section, it's where people are supposed to voice their opinions.
@JohnnyMind Developing a colour palette doesn't justify having a 31 year old very short Gameboy game cost more than a lot of modern games. Charging this for a single Gameboy port devalues the work of people developing modern games from scratch.
@JohnnyMind people have been creating Gameboy emulators and colourising Gameboy ROMs in their bedrooms for decades. Sega Genesis Classics has 50 games on it for $30, Atari 50 has 103 games for $40, Castlevania Collection gives you 8 Konami games, including 2 Gameboy games for the same price as this. We are being presented one very short Gameboy game for $20. Yes I could wait for a sale, but it doesn't make this anything like decent value at MSRP, and it probably won't make it decent value at sale prices either.
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Re: Sunsoft's Game Boy Platformer Trip World Launches On Switch eShop Next Week
@LikelySatan Well I'll definitely not convince anyone if I don't try. The concern is, if people just accept it, this becomes the norm, and then any Gameboy game ported to the Switch costs $20.
Re: Sunsoft's Game Boy Platformer Trip World Launches On Switch eShop Next Week
@LikelySatan it's not just to feel right, I'm a big fan of retro games, and feel it's important that people have access to play them, but charging this for a single Gameboy game just seems unfair and will exclude people from playing it. Yes, I don't need to buy it, and won't be, but that doesn't make it ok and doesn't mean I shouldn't voice my opinion. This is the comment section, it's where people are supposed to voice their opinions.
Re: Sunsoft's Game Boy Platformer Trip World Launches On Switch eShop Next Week
@JohnnyMind Developing a colour palette doesn't justify having a 31 year old very short Gameboy game cost more than a lot of modern games. Charging this for a single Gameboy port devalues the work of people developing modern games from scratch.
Re: Sunsoft's Game Boy Platformer Trip World Launches On Switch eShop Next Week
@JohnnyMind people have been creating Gameboy emulators and colourising Gameboy ROMs in their bedrooms for decades. Sega Genesis Classics has 50 games on it for $30, Atari 50 has 103 games for $40, Castlevania Collection gives you 8 Konami games, including 2 Gameboy games for the same price as this. We are being presented one very short Gameboy game for $20. Yes I could wait for a sale, but it doesn't make this anything like decent value at MSRP, and it probably won't make it decent value at sale prices either.
Re: Sunsoft's Game Boy Platformer Trip World Launches On Switch eShop Next Week
Overpriced for a very short Gameboy game with added colour and appears to just be taking advantage of the high price of original copies.
Re: Metal Gear Solid 2 And 3 Will Have Lower Frame Rates On Switch, Konami Confirms
These are circa 20 year old plus games, running at the same FPS as Tears if the Kingdom. I really don't know why everyone is wetting the bed.