Fig
The Altruist
I figured most people who bought the base game for that price already had a Wii Motion Plus, I was considering doing just that back then because I already had the peripheral when I got Wii Sports Resort. I bought the Limited Edition anyway, though.
That's what I did back in 2011. I couldn't afford a Wii Motion Plus because we were poor and it wasn't utilized as much as Nintendo wanted to market it as so in my case when the special edition came with a Wiimote that had built in Motion Plus, it was definitively worth it. Now that the same game is coming out 10 years later, things have changed minus Nintendo's corporate greed (because that's the primary goal of corporations by the way, they are never your friends no matter how inclusive their products are). $60 for a 2011 game with no visual upgrade whatsoever except for maybe resolution and a button layout all while telling me that Metroid Dread and Mario Party Superstars are coming out in a somewhat similar timeframe for the same price? Yea, hardest skip in my life.
As it stands, this game is looking more and more like Nintendo is just gonna try and pass off "hey look we added button controls " as the only significant change. That's a real shame considering the past HD upgrades got more than that. I would love for E3 to prove me wrong, but idk man.
That said, I'm still gonna buy it. Dunno if I'll get it immediately upon release since two other games come out the week before, but I still want it. SS is one of my favorite Zelda games and I'd love to play it on a better platform.
This is probably my biggest issue with Nintendo fandom. Not your fault Az, if you genuinely want to buy the game, more power to you and I hope you enjoy 2nd favorite Zelda of all time in my place. The thing is most of Nintendo's community are super duper casual and just want to see games from their childhood or some shiz and call it a day. At the same it, it's why Nintendo can capitalize on their markets by effectively making terrible products and people will still defend it, just look at SM3DAS. 3 games for $60 with little to no changes or bonuses attached to the package. Talk about a bad product to celebrate Mario's 35th anniversary. Now it's the same with Zelda. They spent money and time in R&D in designing that Zelda G&W when those resources probably could have been utilized on BotW2's development cycle or at least on something decent like the Super Mario fashion line they also did last year. Metroid getting a new game that continues the story after Fusion while also bringing back a dead game since 2008 that was planned to be on the DS at the time got the fattest dub from the 3 franchises to celebrate their 35th anniversary. That's how you celebrate a beloved franchise. We're still waiting for BOTW2 until after the anniversary and Kid Icarus ain't getting a new game or port of Uprising.