In 1993, Nintendo did a great thing with releasing Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES that summer. Their 8-bit Mario platformers were given that 16-bit touch. A way for people to get into those games as the NES was dying out at that point. It's one of the coveted games for the system. To celebrate 25 years in 2010, they re-released it on the Wii and it was the same stuff. No additional features, no nothing. And it rubbed people the wrong way. They are repeating the same mistake for the 35th anniversary with 3D All-Stars. Unfortunately, this will sell.
While I'm not wishing ill will on Nintendo, this is disappointing, but isn't at the same time. To have Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy in one package is nice. Especially considering Sunshine has never seen a re-release at all since it first came out in 2002. But at 60 dollars, it is a little overpriced, though it would be worth it considering Sunshine sells individually for a very high price due to the GameCube resurgence from kids that used to own it back then. I think it being only 3D games is a very bad move. All-Stars 2 could have sufficed. I know they have the NES and SNES stuff for Switch, but no Mario Land games, no Yoshi's Island. There is a great amount of Mario titles that could have been put into this collection.
What's upsetting is that other companies have done much better compilations over the last 20 years. Sega has done better with theirs and the Sega Genesis Classics is worth getting it for its 50 games and multiple versions of the same game. Konami has put out Contra and Castlevania collections that go back to their 8 and 16-bit roots. Even the Contra arcade games. They have also done a shmup collection. Technos has done one recently of their 8-bit games that includes Double Dragon and River City Ransom. If you want to go back to the PS2 days and earlier, compilations from Taito, Midway, Atari. Capcom had one. Namco Museum. They offered you so much and some small details here and there. Behind the scenes stuff depending on the compilation. Nintendo's effort screams barebones. I don't have that big of an issue with it being a straight port. But they could have put in more titles.
And the last thing I'll mention is that it's only going to sell for six months. Why deliberately limit it? You got from September 18th through the end of March next year. Unless there's something they are going to do, which I doubt, I can't think of any reason to stop selling. These games barely see re-releases compared to the NES and SNES ones. You could chalk it up as Nintendo being really stubborn. Not everyone can get an N64, GameCube, or Wii. Not everyone is going to shell out whatever those titles are used at a game store. If it was 50 dollars and you add in a few more titles like Galaxy 2 and New Super Mario Bros., I don't think there would be much issue with the minority of people who are upset.
Celebrating an anniversary of a franchise is one thing. Nintendo just likes giving the finger to their blind fanbase because they know they will slurp up anything that has Mario slapped on the box.
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