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I can guarantee most of the games you've missed out on have been missed not because you chose to skip them, but because you weren't aware of them. Many more have been missed because you said "maybe I'll get that later" and never did (whether because you forgot or simply missed the window where it was available for sale).

If I'm not aware of a game it's most likely not worth playing. Almost every game worth playing is well known.

You have lived without it, and you will continue to live without it.

No i won't, I will play the game on an emulator if I have to. Problem is, emulators are dying out because game consoles are getting more and more complex, so next time I won't be so lucky

You're not going to end up broke over paying $60 for a port every half decade (or if you are, you shouldn't be paying $60 for games in the first place). If you're really concerned about how much it might cost to yield to your compulsion to own every piece of content for game, put together a concrete plan for which ones to buy and when so you can budget appropriately.

No plan will help when game devs re-release games. It's unacceptable to buy the same game twice ever. If I pay $60 for the base game, I'm not going to buy the base game ever again. Unless you have a crystal ball, no plan is going to help because you can't know when game devs will pull a Street Fighter.

In the hypothetical scenario that you've concocted where publishers just rerelease the same games over and over with marginally more content each time, you don't need to buy every single iteration to get all of it. You just need to buy, say, every 5th one, dramatically reducing the cost and ensuring that you get a more worthwhile amount of extra content for the purchase (plus, on that time scale, you'll probably be looking at different systems, which adds a convenience factor). You won't get to play all the content right away, but you'll get it all eventually.

If game devs re-release the same game forever I'll never get to play all the content ever because I'll always have to buy the same game again to get the new content.

Quite simply, remakes aren't going away, and they're not going to stop adding extra content to be more appealing (note that one of the most common criticisms of Mario 3D All Stars is that they didn't do enough to make the rerelease better than the original: people want improvements from remakes), no matter how much you insist that they should. If you want to stop having a problem with that, that change is going to have to come from you.

I'm never going to change. I cannot accept buying a game that I already own. It's the industry that must change to stop being shit.

Sure you can. It'll likely take years of therapy and a constant conscious effort to discourage yourself from falling into self-destructive thought processes, because that's the nature of such compulsions, but it's far from impossible.

You're just a rando on the internet, you have no idea of what I can or can't do.

Gamers can't even be convinced to boycott EA. You're certainly not going to convince them to boycott Nintendo over enhancing a 7-year-old game when porting it to a new system (which is very much not "pulling a Street Fighter"), especially considering that you're the only person who has this much of a problem with it. You'll be very hard-pressed to find anyone else who bought SM3DW near its launch and is anything worse than mildly annoyed by this.

I don't care. If you give an inch to corporations, they will take a mile. I will not give an inch to Nintendo. And I will convince as much people as I can not to give an inch to Nintendo.