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| Iggy 4041th Post
 
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|  "Famicon mini series..."
, posted Wed 11 Aug 20:40
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A total of 2 700 000 copies of famicon mini have been sold in Japan only. The third series is released now, including Adventure of Link, Castlevania, Super Mario 2... so the number will continue higher and higher. And since the other makers (Konami, Capcom, etc) were extremely pleased by the trend, so this is probably not the last series. There is nothing that could stop them from releasing all the 6 Rockman individualy at 2000 yen each while releasing the compilation on PS2 and GC.
Now : what do you think the game companies learned from the huge success that idea of selling of an emulator + one rom at this price received ? Also, do you think, like Jacques Derrida, that, according to Kant, "because reason is 'conscious of its impotence to satisfy its moral need' it has recourse to the parergon, to grace, to mystery, to miracles" ?
Discuss. 10 000 words or more. You have 3 hours.
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| Gen 2646th Post
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|  "Re(1):Famicon mini series..."
, posted Thu 12 Aug 02:35:
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A total of 2 700 000 copies of famicon mini have been sold in Japan only. The third series is released now, including Adventure of Link, Castlevania, Super Mario 2... so the number will continue higher and higher. And since the other makers (Konami, Capcom, etc) were extremely pleased by the trend, so this is probably not the last series. There is nothing that could stop them from releasing all the 6 Rockman individualy at 2000 yen each while releasing the compilation on PS2 and GC.
Now : what do you think the game companies learned from the huge success that idea of selling of an emulator + one rom at this price received ?
It is interesting. Personally I like it when companies put more than one game in a package....quote:
Also, do you think, like Jacques Derrida, that, according to Kant, "because reason is 'conscious of its impotence to satisfy its moral need' it has recourse to the parergon, to grace, to mystery, to miracles" ?
Discuss. 10 000 words or more. You have 3 hours.
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| Radish 2730th Post
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|  "Re(1):Famicon mini series..."
, posted Thu 12 Aug 07:40:
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A total of 2 700 000 copies of famicon mini have been sold in Japan only. The third series is released now, including Adventure of Link, Castlevania, Super Mario 2... so the number will continue higher and higher. And since the other makers (Konami, Capcom, etc) were extremely pleased by the trend, so this is probably not the last series. There is nothing that could stop them from releasing all the 6 Rockman individualy at 2000 yen each while releasing the compilation on PS2 and GC.
Now : what do you think the game companies learned from the huge success that idea of selling of an emulator + one rom at this price received ? Also, do you think, like Jacques Derrida, that, according to Kant, "because reason is 'conscious of its impotence to satisfy its moral need' it has recourse to the parergon, to grace, to mystery, to miracles" ?
Discuss. 10 000 words or more. You have 3 hours.
I don't think that this series will continue to sell at this pace. After a while I believe the line will lose its novelty (the boxes are pretty cool) and people will stop buying them.
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| Hungrywolf 2937th Post
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| "Re(3):Famicon mini series..." , posted Thu 12 Aug 22:38
I want to explain why I WOULD (and WILL) still buy the Zelda games for GBA even though they are on the collectors disk I have (also people who missed out on the disk may want to get them for GBA, or people with a GBA and no GCN, because there actually seem to be a lot of those people since so many people complain about GBA to GCN connectivity). Anyways, I can't play my GCN portably. That's pretty much why I'll still buy the first Zelda for my GCN even though I have it on my NES (which doesn't work anymore, and the battery save on that cartridge won't last forever anyway). I take my GBA a lot of places when I can't play my GCN and so for that it's very beneficial to have those games. Also, I never bought an e-reader (if I wanted any of those other games, which I really am not too interested in getting, except maybe Bomberman...dunno what is in the second and third wave, though I'm sure there are games in those series I'll want). The $20 doesn't bother me at all. Sure if it was $15 (like it is at Circuit City last time I checked anyway) I'd like it even better. But these games were more than $20 when we bought them for our NES systems originally. Some of them were even over $40 (like the Zelda games) so I'm not gonna whine about price. For me, I think the NES series games are a good idea and maybe I'm just a nostalgic fool but if I am, so be it. If you don't like the idea, then fine, don't buy them and think of them what you will.
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| Kaepora 384th Post
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| "Re(4):Famicon mini series..." , posted Thu 12 Aug 23:14
The Famicon Mini series is a good idea. However, I expect... well, a little more nowadays. Be it upgraded graphics, sound, extra content, or whatnot, I am used to getting more than a minimal "it works" job when it comes to ports. I've been spoiled...
- The new Final Fantasy ports got new graphics/music/options when they went to PSOne, and they're getting extra dungeons for the GBA.
- The GGX2 port for Xbox adds Live! play and is a budget title.
- Street Fighter Anniversary Collection is both SF2 and SF3:TS as one $30 deal instead of two separate purchases like it is elsewhere.
- SNK games are (usually) packaged as two-for-one bundles, and even those ports get some art galleries or little sliding tile games.
- Failing that, they try to sell me quantity over [new] quality. There are numerous Atari/Intellivision collections sold for $20-$30. The Sonic Collection for Gamecube would be a "it works" job, but they put enough games in to make it worth the purchase. Same with the Megaman Collection.
I guess I'm worried that one of two things will happen:
1) Companies start doing no-frills ports and selling them for $20-$30 each. (So Capcom decides that their upcomong MM1-5 Game Boy collection would be better off as five separate $20 game cartridges instead of one package, that they don't need to add Dante to the PS2 port of Viewtiful Joe, or that they didn't need to update the graphics for the Resident Evil ports.)
2) Regurgitated emulation titles will push new game titles out of the release schedule since they're more profitable. (On one hand, it's great that new gamers will have ready access to some of the really good old games. On the other, I didn't buy a next-gen console to play last-gen ports.)
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| Shin Ramberk
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| "Re(5):Famicon mini series..." , posted Fri 13 Aug 01:21
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Note : Remember Nintendo first released the upgraded version of SMR 1, 2, USA and 3 in ONE GAME on SFC.
But when the GBA came out, they realized it would be imensely more profitable to sell each one separately and charge you the price of a full new game for it. But hey, it had the original Mario game in it ! Yeay!
You could certainly put several NES sized games on one GBA cart, but the whole novely behind these 'reissues' is that they hearken back to the old NES days. The packaging and the fact that each game comes in one cartridge-- its all suppose to emulate the feeling of the old NES days. I know I sound like a marketing drone but I think you guys just don't get the point behind these games. I also see these games also as 'collectors items.'
Yes, Nintendo is milking it for all its worth and yes, all they want is money. But I also see the nostalgia value to it. The whole packaging and the way the entire product is put together, its a repackaging of our childhood and selling it back to us. Some people think that's scummy, I think its just smart business and just something neat for older folks to like.
Upgraded graphics and multiple games on one cartridge with bonus material would be WRONG. Why? Because then we wouldn't be playing the games that we enjoyed as children. And its all about nostalgia. You could only do this on a GBA anyway, because the whole experience is supposed to be a melding of the GBA/modern technology with our childhood memories/old NES games. Thats why you have one game, as is, on one cartridge. Thats why we get multiple games on the Gamecube/PS2 re-releases, because they are not going for the same effect as these NES/GBA cartridges.
Am I making my point? Eh, maybe not. Who cares.
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