Game Grumps got in trouble from what I remember using emulators on old games haha.

Unlike physical cartridges, a digital, emulated copy of FireRed has no resale or collector's value. The lack of physical copies for virtual console games also means each copy sold costs Nintendo nothing beyond the initial emulator development cost, which would be minuscule on a per-game basis.

Considering those factors, and the Switch having a higher install base than prior systems (over ten times Wii U unit sales), maintaining the Wii U and 3DS price points is the most reasonable means for Nintendo to monetize their back catalogue in a way that makes piracy less enticing for many people: $3 per GB, $4 per GBC, $5 per NES, $7-8 per GBA, $8 per SNES, $10 per N64/DS, and $20 per Wii.

Given that each emulated console only requires that a Switch emulator be developed for it once (something Nintendo has already done for NSO) to support hundreds of paid titles, there's no need to increase prices when the games will sell several times more than they had any chance to on the Wii U.

Given how many games NSO includes, they could continue offering them that way for people who prefer renting their library. Consumers want meaningful options; pricing a GBA game at $20 is not that.

I feel like people who were never gonna buy it no matter what the price tag was just want something to be mad at.

So if no one responds, it's because they have no rebuttal, but if they do, they're proving your point. Quite the big brain theory there. My point was that it had nothing to do with the price tag, except that the value proposition isn't there when they can just stop giving you access whenever it becomes inconvenient for them. Moreover, while I have regrets about buying stuff on the Wii store, I'm not angry at them. So it just sounds like you're saying I'm not much of a customer for a restaurant that I don't go to anymore just because I got food poisoning a few times. Must be me and not them. And you sound like you're defending a shitty company because people say their product isn't worth buying.

Such a good game! It did not have to have all the extra features it does to be worth the purchase, but they loaded this game with fun!

If you respond to tell me that you were never gonna buy it, you prove my point.

It's just kind of tiring how every post about anything Nintendo does ever has the exactly same whining every time, especially when you're not actually whining about FRLG here at all, you're just whining to whine. You just want something to be mad at.

I actually forgot that Game Grumps only play the newest of the new when it's from a particular series or something.

Why did they get in trouble? Was it with Nintendo or the fans? I kinda remember some "controversy" over them using emulators instead of original hardware, but imo that's bullshit. Sometimes old hardware isn't better, and all kinds of things can go wrong with it.

I wish I remembered...Im spacing right now and search isnt coming up with anything. I just remember there was a small stink because some game or another was too expensive? And they just emulated it but showed one of the screens? Its been many years.

Well, you can keep going to the restaurant with hair in the food. It's not a problem with their practices, my standards are just unreasonably high. Whatever you have to tell yourself to justify why you keep eating food with hair in it.

Yeah, seems about right for some of the purists out there. There's a whole fucking subreddit dedicated to talking shit about them. It's honestly sad.

Like it's one thing to have a semi-parasocial relationship and call it "hanging out with your friends" but it's another entirely to dedicate time out of your life to get upset and angry over a goddamn YouTube channel.

Thinking that pirating a $20 game from Nintendo is fucking someone over is a wild take. Stop treating international giga corporations like people

Monster Sanctuary had much worse graphics and the story was not engaging at all but somehow I still enjoyed it a lot more than Cassette Beasts.

I haven't bought anything from Nintendo since the 3DS. They just can't hold my interest anymore, and I really hate what they've done to Pokémon. They know it, but they just don't care because people will keep buying it regardless.

You were right in your first comment, but this is plainly false. Not pirating, mind, but making copies of what you already own is legal, at least in US and most of Europe.

$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair...and this certainly isn't. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.

I liked Nexomon Extinction, and am looking forward to Nexomon 3D.

"Cause we love money, lol, fuck you poors." - Nintendo

*$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.

Never in my life have I been as excited about a video game release as I was in 2004 for Pokémon FRLG.

Now I haven't touched them in a long time and have no idea why anyone might be excited about games we already know everything about. But then again there are children out there who are the same age as I was in 2004 and they might never have played FRLG on the GBA.

Nintendo suckss

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).

Plenty of GBA games had multiple languages on one cartridge. No excuse.

The devs already got paid. The money spent buying this game just goes to the higher ups who spent 0 time actually working on the game.

I do whatever I want regardless. That you go out of your way to defend the multi-billion company from copyright theft is pointless, when nowadays agents like Meta have been reported stealing millions of copyrighted materials and nothing happened.

The work was already done, and the people who worked on it have already been paid. Nobody's getting royalties here.

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.

Especially in Europe.

Yeah but those require either an specific type of Switch or a modchip (which does cost a little AND requires soldering)

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.

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.

Yes, but not mainline Pokémon games.

Sorry, Shin Megami Tensei has already won me over. Can't beat fighting and having gods fighting for you in my book

The ROM hack Pokemon Unbound is what you're looking for.

I'm playing through Pokemon Unbound on my Steam Deck and it's scratching a decades old itch. I mostly outgrew the games after Gen 1, but that little red Gameboy Pocket got me through many a 9th grade study hall.

I've got my ROMS permanently so I'm saving my money.

People complain but they keep buying Nintendo trash so why not

"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:

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.

Yes i think it's morally correct to pirate their games

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.

Obligatory fuck nintendo

I mean, not really. Nintendo has been fairly consistent about rereleasing old titles for many many years now.

Generally speaking, the people complaining are not the people doing the buying.

It sure seems like they are in the case of Nintendo.

I think Nintendo is right

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

Exactly. No excuse back then, even less an excuse now