Was Nicalis a mistake for Pixel?

I might be beating a dead horse here but as I said before I don't really get hyped for new CS ports mostly because I don't feel like paying for mostly the same gameplay, especially not for four times the price of a port I already own.

I mean hey, Nicalis could have possibly looked at SEGA's business model and said: Hey, a lot of people own multiple copies of Sonic 1, why not have our customers do the same with Cave Story?

So, I don't blame you.

 

SEGA's business model

Care to explain? When it comes to SEGA's stuff i kinda live under a rock.

 

Care to explain? When it comes to SEGA's stuff i kinda live under a rock.

So, SEGA likes to re-release and port Sonic the Hedgehog 1 very often. Most people I know of that like Sonic have like 15 different copies of it, all on separate platforms and/or in different Classic SEGA collections.

 

Nicalis could have possibly looked at SEGA's business model and said: Hey, a lot of people own multiple copies of Sonic 1, why not have our customers do the same with Cave Story?

The only flaw I can see in this is besides when it comes to what specific platform can be considered as bad (Wii port *cough*, eShop port *cough*), there isn't really much of a variation on Cave Story ports. I shouldn't exactly say the Master System/Game Gear ports of Sonic 1 are the same as the Genesis port, but they do differ by a lot. And that case can try comparing to the Mega Man games on the NES/Game Boy, except the Game Boy games are named as Mega Man World 1-5, making them completely different from Mega Man 1-5 (stardroids, anyone?). This whole case is just weird.

 

The only flaw I can see in this is besides when it comes to what specific platform can be considered as bad (Wii port *cough*, eShop port *cough*), there isn't really much of a variation on Cave Story ports. I shouldn't exactly say the Master System/Game Gear ports of Sonic 1 are the same as the Genesis port, but they do differ by a lot. And that case can try comparing to the Mega Man games on the NES/Game Boy, except the Game Boy games are named as Mega Man World 1-5, making them completely different from Mega Man 1-5 (stardroids, anyone?). This whole case is just weird.

I guess that's a fair point. Although, I was only joking when I said that.

 

because I don't feel like paying for mostly the same gameplay

That kinda is how I felt about the original after playing the Wii version for so long (well, not the paying part of course)

 

Not sure if this deserves its own thread, so here:
https://kotaku.com/inside-the-ghosting-racism-and-exploitation-at-game-p-1838068522?IR=T

Well damn, didn't know they were THAT bad. Although, I'm taking it with a grain of salt, because, well it's the internet.