Is the 35th anniversary the release of 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy on the Switch? I'd say the artificial scarcity aspect to induce fomo wasn't any better. It might have even been worse.
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Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros, Nintendo released Super Mario All Stars for the Wii. It was just an emulation of the SNES game from years before. It was released for $30 even though you could buy all of the original games on the Wii shop for like $21 total. It just reeked of “We know you’ve already bought these games like 4 times, but please buy them again”. They did do a better job on the 35th anniversary though.
JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 2 months ago
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, they didn’t.
For the 35th anniversary, they did all this.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The way how Nintendo has a complete inability to understand modern, usually online, entertainment services, is truly an achievement. Just creating an NNID for your console is already a colossal pain in the ass, but it doesn’t begin or stop there. The way how fairly modern games got their entire service lineup completely shutdown is just unacceptable
Zarxrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well I mean, they also ADDED Super Mario Bros 35 to the eShop, for free. You can’t just mention the removal as if it had always been there. I agree it was shitty for them to remove it though, it was one of my all time favorite games. But I’m at least happy that I got to play it.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You paid a subscription for it. It wasn’t free. Just like any other online game, there’s no reason it has to die.