Nintendo isn't trying to maximize your access to Zelda games, its trying to maximize its access to your wallet. That works better if they release only one of the games, and at full price, then do the other one at full price two years later after having extracted as much water as possible from your stones.
You have your terms confused. What you want is a "remake", a "remaster" is just the old version ported over with the console brute-forcing any improvements (HD, less lag, etc.)
No they were not. They were the original games with re-done textures and very minor mesh improvements and in Wind Waker's case some new shader effects and shadows, still a remaster but not to the extent of Metroid Prime.
It's not a remake if the original game code is still there. Metroid Prime Remastered is still a remaster, it is a new coat of paint running on top of the original game code, the same as Shadow of the Colossus, Demon's Souls, Halo CE/2 Anniversary and all the Kex engine games from Nightdive, even OOT3d. A remake is a brand new game not using the existing code, made from scratch. It can still be extremely faithful and be a remake, such games include Mario RPG, Paper Mario TTYD, Star Fox 64 3d (they lost the source), and for not so faithful remakes, the Resident Evil Remakes.
Another reminder that leakers are attention seeking faggots who make shit up for approval and likes.
SMT IV/Apocalypse would be nice. So would another Etrian Collection.
Midori is the real deal, apparently. "Her" Sega/Atlas stuff has been 100 percent accurate so far.
Press X to doubt.
Wind Waker is the only remake so far to add worthwhile content. And only if you found the original frustrating.
Easy: The Switch isn’t powerful enough to flawlessly emulate Gamecube games without a lot of work like with N64 games on Wii, and even though Nintendo could probably pull it off if they tried, why bother when fans will gladly pay $30-$60 for a single port?
I think Super Mario 3D Allstars used emulation, didn't it? They probably put a lot of work into it like N64 on Wii like you said, but again, I don't understand why they wouldn't just give a few high profile games the same treatment they game Sunshine and stick them up in the eshop for $20-30. Similarly, I don't understand the point of taking 3D Allstars out of the eshop. Nintendo has always been very weird about this sort of thing. Just compare them to Microsoft, who you bet your ass is willing to sell you Morrowind and Fable.
It's some sort of half emulation, the game code gets ported to the switch and then the switch only emulates the graphics and audio
They don't want you buying their games for 20-30 dollars, they want you paying 40-60. And they also know that those cube titles absolutely would compete with, and cannibalize sales from, their current generation titles.
For what it is worth, most SNES and N64-era games absolutely cannibalaize sales from modern games.
I am paying $0 for them right now because most of them are not available.
I mean, if we're being real here, there is probably more profit in selling a copy Wind Waker bundled with a specialized Gamecube emulator for $30 than there is in selling a copy of a game made specifically for Switch. A lot of R&D goes into making a new game, with an old Gamecube game a lot of the work is already done. Nintendo is just weird about this shit and they always have been. Wii U could literally play Gamecube games natively and was suffering from software droughts and they still weren't in the Wii U eshop.
It's more that a good chunk of the Gamecube library is already available on the Switch, so dedicating resources on making an official Gamecube emulator may not be worth it. Even more so if third-parties prefer to also re-release their old games themselves (or in the contrary case, there is no way to contact them in order to publish on the emulator).