Talk about laziness. There was absolutely no effort put into these ports at all. They just happen to take 3 ROM dumps, stick them inside of a cartridge & digital download, do minimal work onto these & called it a day. They didn't even include Mario Galaxy 2, & that's one of Mario's most critically acclaimed 3D games right next to Mario 64 & Odyssey. Kirby, Zelda & even Metroid had received better treatments throughout their collections & their remasters & remakes of older games.
And this isn't the first time that it's happened to a Mario compilation, either. It also happened back on the Wii with the Super Mario All-Stars collection on the Wii, in which it's just the SNES versions of SMB 1-3 & The Lost Levels on one disc, & charged $50 for it. And to add insult to injury, it was a limited release just like this upcoming collection is now, which is very insulting.
Even other companies such as Activision had done a better job with Crash 1-3 & Spyro 1-3, & had only charged $40 for each collection. What was Nintendo thinking? And they're asking $60 for these? Not going to happen for me. I'd rather put that towards Super Mario 3D World, in which I haven't even played it & it's getting much better treatment than this so-called "collection".
Nintendo has
plenty of money to last them for a long while. They happen to be the richest company in Japan by far:
With billions in the bank
www.nintendolife.com
The Wii U hasn't even affected them bigly as the cost of each of those consoles wasn't exactly humongous like it was with the PS3 & 360, & that console sold even worse than Gamecube. In fact, Nintendo made money on the Wii U simply from the attachment rate for their games.