People complaining about the price and graphics? The Vita is dead and the PS3/360 will be by next year....plus getting the audience built on the Ps4 and XB1 is rather important.
I'm sorry, but this is SquareEnix's issue to solve, and it means nothing to me as a consumer. A great way to get customers on-board is by offering an attractive and appropriate value for their dollar, which includes aspects such as gameplay length, but it also includes other aspects like production values. I could play Pure Chess for 1,000 hours, but there is no way I would spend $60 on a copy of Pure Chess. Some people may disagree, but there is more to a game's monetary value than the sheer number of hours one can potentially spend playing it, especially since a game's presentation relates directly to the immersion one experiences while playing it.
It's built off of a PSP game so of course it won't look super amazing. Could it be cheaper? Yeah
I believe an apt comparison would be if Konami decided to sell the HD Collection version of Peace Walker by itself at $60 and then gate the demo for The Phantom Pain behind it as a pre-order incentive. Peace Walker was a great game on the PSP that few people played, but it was designed with handheld gaming in mind. It definitely was not the star of the show in the HD Collection, and it was instead presented in the HD package as what it actually was: an added-value bonus.
Looking at the largely barren and blocky environments of Zero, one can easily deduce from the trailer alone that this game was intended to be played on a handheld, and it would be completely out of its depth directly competing against games with the scope of Dragon Age Inquisition, The Witcher III, and Final Fantasy XV, so why on earth would it not be priced accordingly?
but if "remasters" of games we just got last year are able to be full price....why wouldn't a game that we never fucking got and still seems to have a lot of effort put into it not be? It's not like they just straight ported the PSP version and asked for 60....
The only games I can think of that had full-priced Definitive Editions a year after their last-gen releases were Tomb Raider, Grand Theft Auto V, and The Last of US. However, at the time of their each game's debut, they were some of the best-looking games on current-gen consoles. The graphical updates Zero has received, while significant, still make it look closer to the PS4 version of a Dynasty Warriors game than anything else.