Link's Awakening Shouldn't Cost As Much As Breath Of The Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is the same price as Breath of the Wild, but the content doesn't match the value of its cost.

[2pacalypsenow]

It’s Nintendo...

[Shiken]

Remember The Orser 1886?

[Prince-Ali]

Yeah..?

[Yi-Long]

The difference between The Order 1886 (and other Sony games) and Nintendo's games, is that they'll be (much) cheaper within a year.

Sony wants as many people as possible to play and enjoy their games.

Nintendo wants to be a premium-price brand, where they'll keep games at full price for much much longer.

[CorndogBurglar]

What does that have to do with anything? The Order could be beaten in like 6 hours. This is a 15 hour game....more than twice as long.

Most 15 hour single player games are full price. I understand this is a remake, but it's still new to a LOT of people and was built from the ground up.

Do I think this should be $60? Probably not. Maybe $40-$50. But again, what does that have to do with The Order? A game that was generally disliked by many with less than half the content being released at $60?

[2pacalypsenow]

Yeah, I remember a game company trying out a new IP instead of releasing a remake or sequel once a again...

[SyntheticForm]

The Order 1886 definitely shouldn't have been a full priced game.

A Plague Tale: Innocence knew what it was worth and was priced accordingly. Good little straightforward game too.

[_SilverHawk_]

Whenever someone criticizes a Nintendo product there will always be fanboys quick to bring up sony playstation product.

If people weren't accepting of Nintendos rubbish then Nintendo would be forced to make changes. Nintendo games shouldn't be full price at all like the other console because the games are always of lower quality. The switch has 90 percent old games ported or remade for the system and they shouldn't be full price at all. The production value is just way more for pc, xbox one and ps4 so Nintendo games with last gen tech with a lot of things that are missing from more modern games shouldn't coat the same. The switch games with its last gen tech still has a lot of performance issues as well. PSP games and ps vita games were always cheaper than console games even when they had the same games that were on consoles. Those systems had options to play games on a television as well like the switch.

Next gen games will be out next year and Nintendo games will even be further behind in tech but the games will cost full price on the switch and next gen consoles which will be ridiculous to me. It's more acceptable for new games on switch to cost full price but 90 percent of the library of games should be a lot cheaper because they are ports. The nes fanboys are the worst because they accept Nintendos rubbish and they tour the internet apologizing for Nintendos crap. There is zero reason Nintendo should be charging for online play but instead of the fanboys being vocal and also not support it they tout how amazing it is or bring up xbl or psn.

[Silly gameAr]

But, it's always ps fans that try to start trouble. I can't stand nintendo fanboys.

[_SilverHawk_]

All fanboys are silly and should be called out when championing foolishness. It's ok to be a fan of something but to be championing things that aren't consumer friendly or making excuses and accepting rubbish behaviours by your favourite gaming company is unacceptable. Nintendo products are too expensive especially when there are better options elsewhere. The switches advantage is that its portable but due to the games being of lower quality the games should be cheaper especially the ports

[Neonridr]

it's a fully redone remaster. Not just a game running at 1080p. The majority of people here haven't played the original on the Game Boy, a good chunk of people here weren't even playing games when the Game Boy was around.

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

A good chunk of gamers today weren’t even born when the game boy was around lool

[gangsta_red]

Agreed. We have had many games made that were less than a remaster/remake sold at $60. For some reason though Nintendo gets their head put on a spike for completely re-doing a Game Boy for the modern era.

[isarai]

15-ish hours of content isn't worth $60? Sounds worth it to me, don't see how a different camera angle suddenly makes it worth less, it definitely has better dungeons that BOTW that's for sure.

[tontontam0]

if this game sells more than botw then you people are just sending a message to nintendo that they should'nt bother creating new games, just remake the old games.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

I wonder if you will say the same thing about FF7 remake if it outsells the original.

[Hungryalpaca]

So remasters should be full priced games now?

[isarai]

It's a remake not a remaster, and I don't know, ask Resident evil 2 and Final Fantasy VII

[yomfweeee]

Not when it is a re-release with basically must upgraded graphics. If you all pay $60 for it, that was easy money for Nintendo.

[milohighclub]

Botw was a port 🤷‍♂️

[yomfweeee]

Don't act like that is even close to a similar situation. BOTW was released on both systems at the same time.

[PhoenixUp]

Crash and Spyro had remakes built from the ground up with higher production values, yet they sold 3 games for $40.

Shadow of the Colossus’s remake had far higher production costs than those aforementioned remakes yet it still costed only $40.

Even Secret of Mana’s remake, which seems to be on a similar scale to Link’s Awakening’s remake, costed only $40.

MediEvil coming out next year is another remake that will sell at the budget price of an easy $30.

Nintendo being Nintendo will continue selling all their remakes and remasters for $60 just because they can.

[HeisenbergX]

Exactly ! you took the words out of my mouth i really want to play Links awakening but i cant because its too exepensive for me at the moment i recently bought Astral Chain for 60 bucks.

And Medievil is launching next month not next year.

[Neonridr]

Nobody is telling you to buy it. If you feel it's too expensive for what you are getting, then so be it.

[yomfweeee]

Good point. Maybe Nintendo should just sell it for $100 and if we don't like it, we just shouldn't say anything.

[King_Noctis]

@yomfweee

And they didn’t sell it for $100.

[antikbaka]

It’s Nintendo.

[Shiken]

Remember The Order 1886?

[Prince-Ali]

You've said this twice now and you seem to only have The Order as the example to give.. but this is LITERALLYYY how Nintendo operates! and you guys are still stupid enough to blindly follow...

Here let me help you.. Remember Shadow of the colossus, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...? Remember how those contained MULTIPLE games rebuilt i nnew engines from scratch...? Remember how those were much cheaper..? ¬__¬ foool

[CosmicTurtle]

The Order 1886 was an original IP with the structure built from the ground up. I don’t think length of a game equates to quality, the lack of quality was in the game itself, it was a boring game. In fact when it comes to full price being charged by Nintendo I think far more original work has gone into Zelda’s remake than New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe. The point is Nintendo has always charged a high entry fee for remakes/remasters, this is not an attack on the company’s obvious talent elsewhere. Just a fundamental point about how gamers are overcharged. Defending Nintendo to attack a rival means you are defending the practice that you do not agree with out of blind loyalty. It’s called cognitive dissonance. Sony have gone on to charge a far fairer price for the excellent Shadow of Colossus remake, so The Order point is weak.

I will buy Zelda as I love the original. But it is definitely something worth questioning.

[drunkenspy007]

Wow, you are really committed to this. Did The Order 1886 hurt you? Show us where it touched you on the doll.

[badz149]

@Shiken

keep fighting a good fight, SHEEP!

[Shiken]

"did The Order 1886 hurt me"

Nope bought it, enjoyed it, got the plat. I am just pointing out the hypocrisy behind acting like Sony does not charge 60 bucks for new games that are less than 10 hour long, but try to jump all over Nintendo for a 15 hour remake from the ground up.

And for the guy who said Sony games drop in price faster, thats because they stop selling sooner. The price goes down with the sales curve, meanwhile Nintendo's big games are still selling in the top charts to this game, years later. There is no reason to drop the price when they already sell.

I love being a multiplatform gamer, so much better without fanboy glasses. 😎

[Hungryalpaca]

You mean the NEW IP? To respond to your last comment.

It’s not hypocrisy. Nintendo is charging FULL PRICE for a remastered game when other remasters (of higher quality such as crash, Spyro and shadow of the colossus) released at HALF the price of links Awakening.

Yet you’re bringing up the order...because it was short?

You’re all sorts of special aren’t you?

[WPX]

You mean the Shorter 1886?

Jokes aside, good game but damn too short(hence the shorter lol).

[antikbaka]

compare one game VS whole nintendo collection?

[Shiken]

Thats because BotW is worth more than 60 dollars really. Luckily for us, game prices did not go up with inflation. I guess some people fail to take that into consideration when it comes to the general price of games built from the ground up.

I mean, are people voing to co.plain when 10-12 hour TLoU2 (even TLoU Remastered was 60, and that was not even a remake) drops for for anything over 40 bucks? Clearly it should not cost as much as RDR2 or GoW did because it is a 10-12 hour game!

[Prince-Ali]

bruh.. you're actually just stupid... ive gone through this thread and seen you post just some of the stupidest shit ive seen on here man lool! how do you not read back the nonsense you type and think WTF am i talking about!! loool 🤦‍♂️😂

[Shiken]

As someone who plays all three, I am about one of the most unbiased person here. Just because you choose to give Sony a pass on a 10 hour game, but cry that a 15 hour game from Nintendo is priced to high kinda shows how bias you are.

Calling someone stupid also just kind of prives that you had nothing constructive to say, so you result to juvenile name calling in hopes others won't see through you. ;)

[MaxiPower90]

people say game prices never wrnt up. in the uk a new game used to be 30... now they are at least 60 new.

[CosmicTurtle]

I was paying £45 for NES games, about £40 for PS1 games, largely the prices remained similar for PS2. Went up around PS3 times. Factoring inflation into the mix, games are cheaper.

The only time you payed under 30 RRP were with Amiga//ST/PC and 8 Bit microcomputers, I got some spectrum games for £1.99.

[CorndogBurglar]

In the U.S. NES games were $50. They stayed $50 until the Xbox 360 came out and the price raised to $60, which it still is.

So no, prices haven't been raised. Not in about 13-14 years anyway.

[Neonridr]

Nintendo games when I was a kid costed 60-70 dollars easily. And most of those games could be beat in like 5-10 minutes.

[2pacalypsenow]

PS1 games were $39.99-49.99.

I still have my Smackdown! 1 receipt from launch in 2000 where it shows 39.95.

Nintendo has always been more expensive, but that's because of cartridges.

Now they're just more expensive because they can.

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

80IQ detected

[Shiken]

You mad?

[Kabaneri]

The Last of Us is a vastly superior game to BOTW. It has far more replayability than the boring drag of BOTW's empty world.

[Shiken]

Thats a funny joke!

I beat it twice, once on PS3 and once on PS4. Preach that shit to people who don't own all consoles.

BotW >>> TLoU

But again, different people will preder different games. Must be nice thinking your opinion is law. ;)

[KTF26]

I got TLoU PS4 for less than $30 few months after release

I got Switch less than month ago and I got 2 remastered Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Bros U for $60
Good games but way overrated
I got 2 years old Remastered for 5 years old game and still full price (MK8)

God of War is $35 on Playstation Store

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

Why would waste my time being mad at someone with 80IQ 😂😂

[Shiken]

Being mad at yourself for lacking a constructive reply would not do you any good I suppose. 😉

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

IQ 80 Andy with the delusional response lmao you really are dumb

[hanko14]

a switch lite shouldnt cost as much as a switch

[WickedLester]

Ummm....it doesn't.

Switch -299.99
Switch Lite - 199.99

[hanko14]

i was meant almost as much but its a rip off

[CorndogBurglar]

1. A Switch Lite is $100 cheaper than a Switch.
2. What the hell does this have to do with anything?

[Neonridr]

and guess what, it doesn't.

But thanks for sharing hanko..

[2pacalypsenow]

Switch lite is cheaper.

[Knushwood Butt]

Lol

Post of the year.

[hanko14]

i meant to say almost the same cost. its a rip off

[PlayableGamez-]

Yeah I think Links Awakening should of been $40 max. I mean it is a remake of a gameboy game.

[Neonridr]

that most people never played.

[ninsigma]

And I never played spyro 2 or 3, but hey, I still go those together with the first in the remake for less than links awakening.

[Neonridr]

@ninsigma - those are 3rd party games though, exclusives tend to be pricier. I am not saying we haven't gotten some cheap remakes, but TLOU Remastered which was the same game at a higher resolution was full price here in Canada.

[ninsigma]

It was full priced here too unfortunately and shouldn't have been. At least though it would come down in price. This will be a long time before it comes down if ever in official price drops.

[Neonridr]

@ninsigma - Nintendo games rarely drop in value, and that's something I do not agree with. While I understand why they do it from a business perspective, they should really be following Sony and dropping the price of their first party stuff more often.

[ninsigma]

Yup, agreed!

[ShinRon]

same generation of gamers who spend hundreds of dollars on skins and shit complain about the cost for good single player games.

if the price isnt warranted people wont buy... but they will because its Zelda and its an exclusive and there wont be a cheaper one.

its like list articles that make you click a link for each list entry, i dont click those articles but writers are entitled to do what they want with their work.

[Relientk77]

It shouldn't but Nintendo's greedy and Nintendo fans will pay it anyway.

For reference these were/are not $60:

Crash Bandicoot remake - $40
Spyro Trilogy remake - $40
Crash Team Racing remake - $40
Ratchet & Clank - $40
MediEvil remake - $30

[badz149]

in terms of game pricing, Nintendo is the scummiest of them all! and that says A LOT when there are EA and Activision still around.

funny thing is, the fanboys is defending it hard! here you can clearly see the difference between consumers and sheep!

[SyntheticForm]

You using the term "fanboys" referring to others when you're one of the most aggressive fanboys yourself is pretty silly.

[King_Noctis]

Ironic isn’t it?

[badz149]

@SyntheticForm

yeah? so what? just call me out whenever I stand in line to defend anything bad Sony is doing. I'm a fan of Playstation, you can also call me a fanboy, I don't care but when something is wrong and bad, even it's from Sony, I don't go out of my way to do my best to defend it unlike most rabid Nintendo fanboys on this site that basically worship Nintendo and Nintendo can do no wrong like what you see in this article.

you will never see me defend Sony if they do anything wrong. if it's wrong, it's wrong!

[AK91]

Agreed

[Majinzo]

I love and respect Nintendo commitment to making good games so I buy it anyways. I usually only buy big games but this one is a special case.

[Kabaneri]

Software wise, Switch is the most expensive platform by far. Their games rarely drop below $60 and good Estore discounts are rare.

[WPX]

If you buy it at Walmart, it will cost $50 instead of $60.

[Xaevi]

Precisely the reason why I'm not buying it. I doubt this remake had a triple A budget to be priced at a triple A price. Too many remakes and remasters already released at lower price and bundled with more than one game for me to justify buying this

[Imortus_san]

30fps drop frame LMAO.

[KaiPow]

As much as I love Link's Awakening, $40 is the sweet spot for me.

[froy402]

Should be hundred bucks an ninty eight cents

[Germaximus]

Yup. As much as I love Nintendo games, the company is on par or even possibly worse than Activision and EA with their greedy bullcrap.

[Shiken]

How is selling a game for full price on par with the micro transaction BS of Activision and EA?

Hyperbole much?

[TeamIcoFan]

A from the ground up remake shouldn't cost as much as a sequel?
Get the fuck outta here with that entitlement BS.
With that weak ass logic, The Last Guardian, Until Dawn, Detroit : Become Human, Alan Wake, and God of War 2018 shouldn't have been 60 dollars at release!

[GrizToof]

I do agree with this, it should be 45 bucks.

[Jalapeno]

Bought the original for $35 or $30 when it first came out and then the DX remake when it came out for the Gameboy Color and I also bought the Switch remake because I love Link's Awakening so much it was my favorite Gameboy game plus favorite Zelda game so parting with the $60 wasn't difficult.

Serious question for the author: did you play the originals? If not, why did you write this article then? Anyone who had the extensive exprience with Zelda games such as myself should be writing those critical articles in that case especially myself since I beat Link's Awakening at least 20 times already and could play this game in my sleep.

In the originals, you needed at least 20 secret seashells to get the L-2 sword and in the Switch remake, you will need maybe at least 30 (haven't started the Eagle Tower dungeon as of this writing) to maybe 40. Saw another video showing 32 pieces of hearts in the remake versus 12 in the original. There has been improvement to boss battles especially the Face Cave (level 6) boss battle. Based on what I have exprienced so far in the game, Nintendo didn't simply slap a coat of a paint on an old Gameboy classic and call it a day.

That $30-35 of 1993 is $53-62 today if you use the time money calculator. Nintendo even threw in a dungeon arranger for good measure. Link's Awakeing for the Switch will not have an expansion pass like the Zelda version of the game so comparing the $60 retail to the full BoTW exprience of $80 isn't fair at this point. And we should appreciate paying only $60 for the base game instead of closer to $80-100 for the base game.

The people on www.zeldadugeon.net who have never played Link's Awakeing has been playing that game before starting on the Switch remake. Something the author should have been doing and the author should play the full remake first before writing a stupid article about the value of games.

[milliniumstylz]

And watching Endgame shouldn’t cost the same as Watching The Emoji Movie.... this is life.

[shauzy]

i found the nsp