Great post, this is exactly how I feel.

When you buy a Nintendo system, you know you are going to buy Mario, Zelda, Smash, etc., no matter the price. And you'd have anticipated these games for years, and you'll love them all the more for it. Most third party franchises on the other hand release sequel after sequel, letting fatigue slipping into consumers minds. Many big profile third party games even release annually or every two years. That diminishes the value of these games tremendously.

If only this thread was about mobile games :

Look... you are still doing this....

Ok, take GTA5... currentlythat game has sold more than any game on the planet. One of the highest rated too. Didn't stop it from seeing price cuts.

Take the COD franchise, at its peak that game was selling an average of 20M+ copies every year. Still didn't stop them from getting price cuts. Same can be said about any great selling game on other platforms. Games that to those that have reviewed and played it are considered as quality games.

Yet you are still pushing this narrative that nintendo games keep their higher prices because they are of a better quality than everything else and now using sales data to back that up. I could take sales data of a shit ton of extremely well selling quality games on other platforms and show you too...... they still got price cuts.

The only person refusing to accept facts here is you. Nintendo games stay high because nintendo sees to it that they do so they make as much from them as possible at all times. They do the same thing with everything.... hell... only nintendo will sell a portable console without even providing the charger for it cause they want you to buy it seperately.

Hmm...  Let's see...

There is not one (NOT EVEN ONE) WiiU nor Wii game on the top 75 VGC chart as of sept 09th.  So I really have to wonder: Where are these people that are buying these games two or three years after its release?

And if the legs provided by the "high quality" of these games is what is preventing them to drop in price, then where are these legs people speak of?

Oh! And btw, Mario Tennis (which has a Metascore of 58 and a user score of 5.3) is still selling for 49.99 on Nintendo's website.

So...  Nope. Quality has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Like at this point there is no reason to bother. Like I just lack the resolve and energy to go online and track poorly rated nintendo games that are still sold at high prices....

There are just some people that is impossible to reason with.

At the end of the day. Nintendo games just master how fun they are to play. Good play will always be timeless.

Lol... that kinda post shifting is why having discussions with you is impossible. 

Nintendo pricing works not because of quality games..... but because people like you still support them. They know they can get away with it. I mean.... I am talking to a grown man (i think) that sincerely believes the reason other games get price cuts is because they are of a lesser quality than the games he sees fit to pay an asking price for.

Dismissing criticism of thetactics of his favored company which as I said does things like release a handheld console witout a charger. The funny thing about that incident, was that its official nintendo chargers got to stores before the console itself lol.

Quality obviously.

I remember reading from someone who worked at Gamestop a few years ago. A game like Wind Wake is $40 10 years after release is because people want to buy copies of that game but there is no supply. So stores like Gamestop would jack up the price to get a higher profit and people would PAY for it. Most people will buy a Nintendo game and never sell it because they love that game too much. This causes prices to never fall down because the supply of used copies never surpass demand. That's why Pokemon Heart Gold is worth more now than it was when it came out.

As for new games Nintendo never drops the price. They believe it creates bad habits for consumers and most of the time these games still sell well at full price. I mean I remember seeing a full priced Mario Kart DS at Gamestop back in 2012. Absolutely ridiculous.

Smh... and now you are resorting to put words in my mouth. Not once have i said nintendo games are mediocre. Because unlike you I don't have this stupid notion in my head that because i like something its better than everything else on the market.

I have explicitly and repeatedly said though, that the reason nintendo games maintain their higher price is not because of quality cause there are some bad onesout there that are still highly priced.

I am aslo saying, in general (good games, bad games and peripherals) , that the reason the "prices" remain high is because nintendo can get away with what they are doing. Primarily because their audience eg. you.... don't seem to mind. That is in no way implying that they  the games you are buying are mediocre. 

I think I have given you enough examples of great quality games that still saw a price cut. Remember, this is all cause you said that all these other games that get price cuts lack the quality of nintendo games.

So please, don't start trying to spin what I have been and I am still saying to lend ur flawed way of thinking any kinda credence. 

Look, lets just leave it alone... like many discussions you and I have had in the past; this is going nowhere. You are still as closed minded as you have always been. And thats why even now you still can't see how silly it is to say everything lacks the quality of nintendo games. 2+ pages later. There literally is no point us keeping this up.

There's a lot of factors to consider and no clear answer. But I have to agree on the "quality matters" argument, and also on the perception of the Nintendo brand.

In recent history, Nintendo slashed the price of the following games: Star Fox Zero, Sing Party, Nintendo Land, Chibi Robo Zip Lash, Codename STEAM, Little Battlers Experience, Bravely Second, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash. What do all of those games have in common? None of them was a critical and commercial success, neither with fans or the critics. I'm sure they're willing to lower the price of their games if said games are not up to the standard of Smash, 3D and 2D Mario, Zelda, etc.