10 Video Game Remasters NOBODY Asked For
3. Super Mario 3D All-Stars
On paper, Super Mario 3D All-Stars seemed like a totally unscrewupable remaster collection of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy, but Nintendo being Nintendo, of course they had to make some totally baffling business decisions.
Even accepting that just about every card-carrying Mario fan has played these three masterpieces to death, there certainly would've been a sizable audience for a remaster compendium which lovingly brought the trio of games up to modern muster with a bevy of new quality-of-life features.
But even if you could forgive how flagrantly barebones the remaster was, and that it puzzlingly didn't include Super Mario Galaxy 2, it was raked over the coals by many once it was revealed that Nintendo utilised emulation technology.
Naturally many players weren't thrilled about paying top dollar for an emulation collection, especially given Nintendo's own aggressive attacks on the emulation scene.
And as the cherry on top, Nintendo ultimately made the remaster trilogy a limited-time release, only being available on sale for six months, with second hand copies now selling for princely sums on sites like eBay.
Artificial scarcity sucks, and though Super Mario 3D All-Stars did admittedly sell shedloads of copies regardless, did any Mario fan want a remaster that showed such little respect for them as a consumer?