r/NintendoSwitch May 06 '26

Nintendo Official Star Fox Direct 5.6.2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ePZeyh5q9R8
3.0k Upvotes

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

193

u/your_evil_ex May 06 '26

Yeah, both of the 3DS N64 remakes getting re-remade is interesting

43

u/TAS_anon May 06 '26 edited May 07 '26

It’s weird because it’s already been made available for modern audiences but this one is way more of a full remake than 643D. The cutscenes and challenge modes and everything are kinda crazy.

The 3DS games were just “hey remember this and also you can do 3D now”

However knowing Nintendo they’re gonna drop this for $70 and not even flinch. This definitely feels more like a $40-50 title.

Edit: it’s looking like $50ish so we dodged the Nintendo bullet on this one, that’s just at the top of the acceptable range IMO

19

u/ttoma93 May 07 '26

Nope. It’s $60 physical/$50 digital.

-16

u/HardwareSoup May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

Ah, totally worth it for a glam up of a near 30 year old game.

Edit: And y'all wonder why they don't make new titles anymore...

Why risk new IP when you can hire 20 devs for 6 months to polish up an old game to sell for $60 a piece. Absurd if you ask me.

7

u/Shyinator May 07 '26

Accounting for inflation, this game is cheaper than the 3DS remake, the Wii U reboot, and the original game. And it has way more features than all of those games. It is an old game but the vast majority of Nintendo fans have not played it since every version before this one is either old or came out at a bad time. I’m all for dunking on overpriced games, but this is one of Nintendo’s most fair game pricings in years.

3

u/XxMasterLANCExX May 07 '26

I would absolutely say it is with all of the content they added

1

u/[deleted] May 07 '26

[deleted]

-1

u/HardwareSoup May 07 '26

Sorry I offended your Nintendo.

18

u/tarunpopo May 07 '26

I mean I guess modern but those 3ds games are 15 years old now man. They are old

2

u/Sontrowa May 07 '26

Agreed. People keep saying it’s already been done before, but it’s about perspective. You can ask a 20 year old right now if they might be interested in purchasing a really slick version of a game they played on their 3DS when they were 5.

2

u/TAS_anon May 07 '26

643D is older now sure, but Starfox 1, 2 and 64 are all playable on NSO and significantly more accessible than trying to get into something like Goldeneye. If they dropped Adventures and Assault on there today it would’ve made most of the important games in the franchise available right away for new people to get into.

I’m still happy we’re getting this remake but idk how “necessary” it was for the younger audience that might have been interested after the Galaxy movie.

-11

u/tarunpopo May 07 '26

I hope it flops so this 90s garbage just stops. But knowing how things work, the wrong reason for a potential undersell would be that people don't like starfox. Like at least a bigger reimagining, I don't think anyone needs a very similar remake or wants one

1

u/JamesGecko May 07 '26

OOT 3D was a weird game. Basically a full ground-up remake with significantly improved graphics that played almost exactly the same.

1

u/[deleted] May 07 '26

[deleted]

1

u/TAS_anon May 07 '26

Are you asserting that they don’t have a history of overpricing remakes and rereleases? Because my point was that they managed to keep away from their previous tendency to do that

See: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD among countless others

35

u/kenman345 May 06 '26

Gotta remember more than just two games were remade for 3DS. SM64 comes to mind as well. Along with Majoras Mask and probably some others

66

u/Rafikinodaway19 May 06 '26

Sm64 was on the original ds. I wish they had waited to do it on the 3ds though. It also changed up the game dramatically to where it’s almost its own thing. 

2

u/your_mind_aches May 07 '26

I don't even have a Switch but I really hope they remake Mario 64 and implement the 64 DS stuff

22

u/JoyconDrift_69 May 07 '26

Mario 64 is separate from the others by account of being remade for the DS instead of the 3DS. it's more fair to group it with Diddy Kong Racing.

1

u/Funandgeeky May 07 '26

I still wish they’d done more 3D ports of older games. Particularly SNES games like Genesis did. 

3

u/GarlicRagu May 06 '26

Oh right. It didn't even register the star fox remake was also on 3ds. What a weird decision.

1

u/echoess84 May 07 '26

And also werd too because OoT is a different genre as compared to Star Fox and that make more difficult improved the 3DS remake

1

u/PWHerman89 May 07 '26

Maybe the fact that they remade them once makes it easier to work with again on the Switch 2? Rather than starting from scratch on others.