Sega Classics are they worth it?

At the E3 Press conference Microsoft announced that two SEGA classic games (Sonic the Hedgehog, and Golden Axe) were available on xbox live arcade for the low price of 400 MS Points. Everyone on the interweb seemed to be pretty happy with this news and why not, they are both good games albeit games that most people have played before a bunch of times.

I was thinking about buying Golden Axe when I realised that I had played both Sonic and Golden Axe recently on my PSP in the SEGA Mega Drive Collection that came with 25 other games for only $70, this made me question the value of buying them form Live Arcade.

So I stared to do some Math;

• If can buy a 1500 MS points card for $29.95 that works out to be about 2¢ a point so a 400 Point costs about $8 per game.
• Now if we work out the cost per game on the SEGA Mega Drive Collection if you pay $69.95 for 27 games that works out to be about $2.60 per game.
  

Now I know you will say that there are crap games in the SEGA collection and you don't get achievements on PSP, but lets face it even if only half the games are they still only $5.20 per game which is still a lot cheaper.

So there you have the Math, I will let you make up your own mind but I won't be wasting my MS Points on classic SEGA games anytime soon. There is always the option of going the ROM way but that is not completly legal so we won't talk about that.

Note : prices are all in $NZ