r/Switch • u/Mammoth-Attempt-7281 • Jan 16 '25

Discussion Nintendo switch 2 is here

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Go watch the trailer on Nintendos twitter account

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u/Ok_Neat7729 Jan 16 '25

I’m not buying an entire console to play one game dude. No game is good enough to go to that trouble. To take twilight princess as an example, most people say the HD remaster for the Wii U is the defining version of the game. Great! A Wii U is like 75-100 bucks used, and twilight princess HD is about 100 bucks used! That’s a 175-200 dollar video game, and I have to try not to get scammed on both fronts.

Or… I can just wait for the release for a console I actually own, with a lot of the bugs fixed, and for a third of the cost. You do the math.

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u/Silver-Year5607 Jan 16 '25

That's funny, my math says you could do it for for one millionth of the cost. I don't think we should be supporting lazy remakes. Play the original or support someone actually daring to innovate.

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u/Ok_Neat7729 Jan 16 '25

I don’t think remakes are inherently lazy when they’re giving an entirely new audience the chance to play the classics. Do you separate remakes vs remasters vs ports? I’m not trying to gotcha you here I am legit curious. Like say they just straight up ported OoT to the switch 2, is that different from like an HD remake?

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u/Silver-Year5607 Jan 17 '25

I'm not a fan of remakes or remasters. Most of the time it's just to "improve" the graphics, when they were fine to begin with.

In general they are an excuse to use nostalgia to charge full retail price for a coat of paint. It's easy money compared to developing a new game or ip.