Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by thaumasiotes | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

thaumasiotes·

> But I just wanted to let my son Mario 64, and $80 per year is too much for that.

Nintendo obviously agrees, since they charge less than that for Mario 64 on the Switch.

https://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-3D-All-Stars-Nintendo-Swi...

It even comes bundled with Galaxy.

View on HN

People complained about this release - seems like some people will complain about anything short of free - but I thought it was a pretty good value.

The complaints were that the digital release was available for a limited time only. It's even more insulting that they're still selling the physical cartridge version of it. But if you want to own it digitally keeping the store page on their servers for more than 6 months was too difficult? I specifically didn't buy this because I don't want to normalize the trend of time-limited digital game sales. Shutting down your online store long after a product lifespan is over is understandable. But a 6 month purchase window is just trying to profit off of FOMO

https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/2021/super-mario-3d...

> It's even more insulting that they're still selling the physical cartridge version of it.

Are they still manufacturing the cartridges, or did it just sell really poorly?

Officially, the cartridges stopped production around the same date the digital version was "taken down". It just sold exactly as poorly as every other retrogaming/nostalgia cash grab remake, and I say that as someone that bought it and has preordered the Advance Wars remakes. The only reason you can still find cartridges of the 3D remakes is that third party sellers (amazon, gamestop etc) still have tons of stock of it.

Well, the obvious complaint is that it was time-limited. That was a ridiculous decision, and the complaining is richly deserved.

I don't see any problem with the content, though.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com