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I'm curious about something, both related to PSN in particular and not at the same time: Street Fighter Alpha 2 recently came out (Thursday, I think it was), but rather than being a port of the arcade game, I believe it is the port of the mediocre PS1 version (which seems to be kind of a norm for PSN). Capcom also announced that Street Fighter Alpha 3 would come out, but it wouldn't be the arcade version or the even-better-than-arcade PSP version, but the similarly mediocre PS1 port. If they had the ability to do so, I bet they would even release the infamous X-Men Vs. Street Fighter PS1 port.
Before this sounds too much like Capcom hate, I will mention Sega has been doing similar things with their once-a-year Genesis collections since 1999 (see Altered Beast on Ultimate Genesis Collection being Genny version only), and I can't understand why people clamour for it. Especially when some of the things being offered were truly awful ports when they actually came out (Capcom seriously let that truly disgusting SNES version of Final Fight show up on Virtual Console a couple of years ago). Is nostalgia that powerful that people would rather have compromised (or, in Final Fight's case, unspeakably awful) ports of games just because they are more like what they had as kids? I can relate to wanting to play games I had when I was little (that's why I still buy games for my Genny), but I simply don't get how that extends to wanting to play the exact same game, console-specific problems/limitations and all. Any thoughts?
Before this sounds too much like Capcom hate, I will mention Sega has been doing similar things with their once-a-year Genesis collections since 1999 (see Altered Beast on Ultimate Genesis Collection being Genny version only), and I can't understand why people clamour for it. Especially when some of the things being offered were truly awful ports when they actually came out (Capcom seriously let that truly disgusting SNES version of Final Fight show up on Virtual Console a couple of years ago). Is nostalgia that powerful that people would rather have compromised (or, in Final Fight's case, unspeakably awful) ports of games just because they are more like what they had as kids? I can relate to wanting to play games I had when I was little (that's why I still buy games for my Genny), but I simply don't get how that extends to wanting to play the exact same game, console-specific problems/limitations and all. Any thoughts?
