Hello everyone
As you know, the landscape of gaming during the past 10 years or so has leaned heavily towards remasters and physical ports of not old games from long ago but the very last console's game. Xbox One has even remade dozens of the 360's games. And even packaged them in cases that say Xbox One and 360 on them. Companies so quickly ready to double dip their cookie with full price rereleases that we will all eat up like jolly ranchers because they are so good we need them twice. And it's becoming so common. But my big concern is when you take every good game from say Xbox 360 and port it over on the one in physical format, doesn't that make the 360 almost irrelevant or undesirable to buy?
The prime example is with Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Rayman legends, mario kart 8 and many more being ported to the Switch from Wii U.
Does this in your opinion hurt the Wii U in both collectibility stand point and legacy standpoint that so many of it's games and most of it's best games are being ported on a better console with better graphics. Does this in sense make the previous copies worthless or just make the console a waste of time to get considering all it's best games will be on the next console?
It's a double sided coin in a sense because on one end you can introduce epic games to people who have never owned a Wii U and make it so beloved fans can enjoy it on their favorite next gen platform. But on the other coin it makes those who have a Wii U for collecting purposes have a stack of games that have almost no purpose or those who may have down the road, say 30 years from now wanted to get a Wii U might not because why should they, all the best games are on switch... because they have been ported with better visuals onto the new console.
Which side do you fall on. Do you think ports are overdone and hurt the previous gen's legacy or do you think that it's a fun, healthy and overall good thing for devs to do to rerelease the games again.
I know Super Mario All Stars and other games have done ports but most back in the day were comp carts and never just fully released the same game again. For example Mario 3 never came out for SNES. SMW never came out for N64. I mostly think it's because at that time we were a little more strict with what we'd allow as common practice and would have flipped the cap if they copped out and gave us last gens game but now adays it seems like it's accepted.
Where do you stand with ports as a whole but most especially do you think that Wii will have any legacy or collectibility if they keep porting to switch with physical copies at the rate that they are?