@00LiteYear@ChaosAngelZero Let's see: strictly speaking, from my personal standpoint yes, it's expensive for me since I live in a third-world country and the local currency is undergoing very heavy devaluation right now. However, what I'm actually saying is that 250 dollars for an 8GB system (out of which only a measly 3GB is actually available for the user) is super expensive when compared against a 250GB PS3 at the same pricepoint, the GamePad doesn't justify the extra expense for the absurdly low storage capacity, inferior game catalog (and technically inferior games, go check out Digital Foundry for this) and diminished multimedia functionality.
And of course, the vast majority of people only have enough money for buying one system per "generation" anyways, at least at the very beginning of it, so it goes wihout saying that most gamers will choose an actual new generation system, not Nintendo's take on 2005 last-gen hardware.
"A barrier between the games and the people who want to play them"?
LULZ. I guess that barrier's name is "one hundred dollars". When this thing hits the $200 price point, it'll start doing great. Right now it's a super expensive PlayStation 3 with a gimmicky controller nobody cares about, MUCH fewer games and, like, 460 less GB of storage capacity.
@Minasodrom I know, however not all of them are available on their channel (especially the very old ones) and having to depend on other people to rip them from this site and upload them over there isn't gonna cut it. Besides that, while I do know how to download vids from YouTube (and regularly do so), YT could at any time change their tech to disable all software that does this since it's not intended to be possible (I think they tried this a couple times already), and regardless GS could ask YT to shoot down specific videos of other channels if they belong to them.
"Instead of focusing on the underlying appeal of the original game (in this case, the satisfying action), they highlighted secondary pleasures such as the soundtrack and characters."
Yep. That's what we call a remaster: you can only focus on changing the aesthetics and no further than bug fixing in a remaster. If you mess around with the mechanics, you are going to come up with a sequel or a mod, not a remaster.
@Shadow128 Indeed, and besides the name of the game itself says "Remastered". It's basically the same game as the NES/ Famicom original with added bells and whistles, if you want an entirely new experience, with reworked stages and mechanics and such, you should look for it elsewhere, 'cause most people expect from remasters pretty much the same thing they do from the original, doing it the other way around would piss most people off, and rightly so.
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