everything about this release is ridiculous

20$ is way too expensive for what it is, it should honestly be 10/15$ at most
why just fire red/leaf green? why not other pokémon games? ruby, sapphire, emerald, these have never been rereleased!
why are all language versions separate purchases??? you couldn't be arsed to bundle them?
the only new feature of this release, and really the only reason one might want to use this version instead of emulating on another platform, pokémon home compatibility, is not available at launch and will be added later. come on.

You ain't going to jail for downloading a GBA game. And it is much cheaper than 20 dollars (except if you really want to play it on a switch for some reason)

"Neither of these answers seem to address the question of why the games could not also be part of the Switch Online's GBA collection... or why the games are priced at $20 each..."

Nintendo:

Meanwhile, I can go to a certain website, get the gba rom and even a romhack adding tons of QOL features and new stuff.

Then, thanks to emulators, I can play it on any device, have cloud saves if I want, online multiplayer for free, in any language I like and for only $0.00

This is the real reason Nintendo is suing emulators and ROM hosts. They JUST realized there is a market for this. Took them 30+ years to figure it out.

What is the point of having Nintendo online if Nintendo isn't going to release the games/DLC you want on Nintendo online?

*$20 each, for each language.

Because their real answer of "Because you dumb fucks will buy it anyway" wasn't nice enough for the press lol. Seriously as long as you dumb asses keep buying old ass games from Nintendo for way too much money they will keep letting you do it.

I would have loved like a Mario all Stars of retro Pokemon games. They don’t even have to get fancy with it. Give me like Gen 1-5 and we’re good. Or hell, even just Gen 1-3 and I’d be happy.

You know it's bad when Konami can release GBA roms for a better deal at the exact same price (talking about the Castlevania Advanced Collection).

$5 for a whole generation of games would be fair...and this certainly isn't. Wario is the true representative of Nintendo.

"Cause we love money, lol, fuck you poors." - Nintendo

Obligatory fuck nintendo

Lmao hard pass.

I’m all for buying current games and remasters but $20 for a 20 year old game (that they’re releasing the editions separately) is absurd.

People complain but they keep buying Nintendo trash so why not

Nintendo suckss

Time to pirate FR to play on my phone just as a tiny middle finger to nintendo, who can't do shit against me in Brazil 🇧🇷 🖕

Oh, let me also play more Palworld, who's having to fight bullshit patents

Nintendo: “What are you gonna do about? Not buy it?”

Nintendo is only doing this because people let Nintendo fuck them in the ass without even a kiss and a reach around. And then they say “thank you senpai”

Never in my life have I been as excited about a video game release as I was in 2004 for Pokémon FRLG.

Now I haven't touched them in a long time and have no idea why anyone might be excited about games we already know everything about. But then again there are children out there who are the same age as I was in 2004 and they might never have played FRLG on the GBA.

I haven't bought anything from Nintendo since the 3DS. They just can't hold my interest anymore, and I really hate what they've done to Pokémon. They know it, but they just don't care because people will keep buying it regardless.

I would Pay $60 for a switch physical cartridge with all of their GB through GBA Pokemon games, especially if there was a way to trade pokemon with myself. I would still play them all on roms on my other devices, but I would totally buy that cartrage. But I'm not paying $20 for a digital version of just one of them.