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$20 for Pokémon ports - is this actually a big deal?

If you're somehow unaware, recently it was announced that Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are to be rereleased for Nintendo Switch. What was going to happen with Pokémon rereleases has been a big question mark over the Switch ever since the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance were added to the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service, and now we have our answer - not through their subscription service at all, but rather as standalone ports. This caused controversy amongst the Pokémon community, but this is the Pokémon community, that community can find controversy out of a tree. The controversy here, though, is quite interesting for a few reasons. The first is because Nintendo has done almost exactly what people have been asking - they released their old games away from Switch Online. This seems great... so why is everyone still up in arms about it? The obvious answer is that, actually, there are probably a lot more fans of Nintendo Classics and how it's been built up than you might h...