Latest Nintendo Direct: Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis

I am sure a lot of you are familiar with what happened a couple of days ago but I wanted to put my two cents into the whole ordeal. Although I am all for re-releasing software that's not available to everyone due to price and scarcity, I am not fond of the way it is handled nowadays. After seeing the only part I was interested in, which is the retro games being released for the Switch, I was a little disappointed. I have a couple of issues on these. Lets get started.

The first thing on the table is the price of the controllers. Why 49.99? The price is honestly quite hefty and ridiculous, but I am sure the fanboys are going to jump and say 'oh but it's retro and not out anymore' Which that may be the case, but it doesn't feel like the price of these controllers is fair at all. Think about it, you want to play Smash with other friends in the same home, you'll need 200 dollars worth of controllers. Of course, you can also play online but I am not sure how that is going to work so I can't say much about it. Another thing, why the Sega Genesis three button controller? It's most likely because they want to sell them first before releasing the newer six button controller, why not just the six button? You know that would make more sense as it's the definitive version of the console. The price of these should've been 24.99-29.99 tops, that would've been fair. 

Another thing to bring up is the membership upgrade, why? This stuff should've been included in the membership everyone is already paying for, so now, you are telling us we have to pay more to play games you have sold is since the Wii generation? That's just ridiculous, why include the NES and SNES and then decide that you want more money for the same games you have released ages ago? That's just wrong. In a sense, you are just releasing the same thing over and over and over. Stuff like this shouldn't need no upgraded fee as it's something that should have been included in the first place. This is quite disappointing and greedy on their part. Yes, we can't make money from these games so lets just raise the membership price, not fair. 

One last thing I'll mention is the incredible re-releases of the same stuff. We have gotten a Sega Genesis collection for the Switch not too long ago so now we have to get a controller for 49.99 and upgrade our membership for who knows how much just to play them? That's just wrong and makes no sense but I'm sure people will buy into it regardless because that's the reason Nintendo keeps doing this. Same thing can be said for the Nintendo 64 games, didn't we get a 3 in 1 Super Mario Anniversary collection which included Super Mario 64? So now, you are including it again? why? That's just ridiculous.

Overall, I'm very wary of these new releases but we will see what time will bring in the future. I do see some good with the release of such games as Sin and Punishment and MUSHA. I think these games will introduce these games to new players that It hasn't already, but overall not happy how Nintendo is pricing playing retro. Sometimes I feel it's better to just play them on emulators or the originals.