That's not fair. If I'd ever seen Prime Trilogy anywhere I would have bought it. Now I'm gonna have to go out and find the bugger.

If these don't sell enough anymore or are replaced with sequels, i don't see where's the problem: why would Nintendo loose its time and money on a few thousands of copies of all these games when they're sellin' millions of copies of other titles, and prepare to do the same with future titles? The second-hand market is still there anyway for those really lookin' for one of these in the future...

The only "real" problem here is Excitebots never released in Europe... of course, it would be once again to sell only 100k-200k, as the game was nearly a flop in US... but for the thousands of us who would have liked to play it, it's not cool, not cool at all...

OK, it's a "normal" business choice... but 2009 could have made it with one more "niche" game in my collection, and a few more hours of racing fun... Excite Truck was quite good, and that one looked even better...

Fan service? If it doesn't bring tons of $$$, don't expect anything from Nintendo anymore...

I hate how Nintendo does this. It's a bitch finding a legit copy of Yoshi's Island DS, let alone a brand new copy.

Gamerace said: Better pick up WarioLand: Shake it! I've been seeing it discounted but didn't realize it was discontinued. I should also pick up that new copy of Strikers Charged I've seen at the video store. Nothing surprising here though. These titles aren't selling. NPC Pikmin really underperformed. I doubt we'll see NPC Pikmin 2 in NA now. Worries me that such soft sales (even in JP) might derail Pikmin 3. Where's NPC Mario Golf? That would be an easy 1m for Nintendo.

Rumblings on gaf are that NPC is dead.  After the weak sales of Pikmin, they bundled MP1/2 with MP3 to make the Trilogy rather than releasing them on their own as a last ditch attempt to see if the rereleases could ever put up good numbers.  When that also struggled to be a real success (by Nintendo's standards), they canceled the entire line, hence why we've heard nothing about Pikmin 2, Mario Golf, or any of the other announced NPC line up in over a year.

If true it sucks.  The only rereleases I really wanted were Super Mario Sunshine and the Wind Waker, for the improved performance and 480p.

I don`t get the Metroid discontinuation. Other M won'y likely be out until holiday 2010. Ususally developers try and promote upcoming new games by offering their predecessors at a discount. They still have at least 8 months of selling the trilogy before they need to worry about the two games competing.

As for Player's Choice titles, you would think that Zelda, Galaxy, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, et al. would also need to be added to the list. Not to mention, I don't any of those games will stop being produced when their sequels come out. I just don't get Nintendo these days.

a slap in the face to core gamers. They have the money to keep printing more copies, but they'd rather save some money.

makingmusic476 said: Gamerace said: Better pick up WarioLand: Shake it! I've been seeing it discounted but didn't realize it was discontinued. I should also pick up that new copy of Strikers Charged I've seen at the video store. Nothing surprising here though. These titles aren't selling. NPC Pikmin really underperformed. I doubt we'll see NPC Pikmin 2 in NA now. Worries me that such soft sales (even in JP) might derail Pikmin 3. Where's NPC Mario Golf? That would be an easy 1m for Nintendo. Rumblings on gaf are that NPC is dead.  After the weak sales of Pikmin, they bundled MP1/2 with MP3 to make the Trilogy rather than releasing them on their own as a last ditch attempt to see if the rereleases could ever put up good numbers.  When that also struggled to be a real success (by Nintendo's standards), they canceled the entire line, hence why we've heard nothing about Pikmin 2, Mario Golf, or any of the other announced NPC line up in over a year. If true it sucks.  The only rereleases I really wanted were Super Mario Sunshine and the Wind Waker, for the improved performance and 480p.

 

That's not exactly true.   NPC Mario Tennis has been a huge success moving over 1m units.   NPC DK JB must also be doing okay since it's not on this list.    NPC Mario Golf would be assured good return on investment.  Easy 500k to 1m.   But the Nintendo core isn't really supporting these and so I don't see any reason to put Zelda or Mario Sunshine into NPC form.   Maybe the GC Mario Party games if it makes sense to add motion to them at all.

makingmusic476 said: Gamerace said: Better pick up WarioLand: Shake it! I've been seeing it discounted but didn't realize it was discontinued. I should also pick up that new copy of Strikers Charged I've seen at the video store. Nothing surprising here though. These titles aren't selling. NPC Pikmin really underperformed. I doubt we'll see NPC Pikmin 2 in NA now. Worries me that such soft sales (even in JP) might derail Pikmin 3. Where's NPC Mario Golf? That would be an easy 1m for Nintendo. Rumblings on gaf are that NPC is dead.  After the weak sales of Pikmin, they bundled MP1/2 with MP3 to make the Trilogy rather than releasing them on their own as a last ditch attempt to see if the rereleases could ever put up good numbers.  When that also struggled to be a real success (by Nintendo's standards), they canceled the entire line, hence why we've heard nothing about Pikmin 2, Mario Golf, or any of the other announced NPC line up in over a year. If true it sucks.  The only rereleases I really wanted were Super Mario Sunshine and the Wind Waker, for the improved performance and 480p.

Both those games had 480p in their original iterations anyway. Most significant GameCube titles did. The only two GC titles i have that don't support it are Sonic Mega Collection and now Tales of Symphonia

I'm now more convinced than before that this is in preparation for a budget line, because of the what I previously viewed as the biggest discrepancy - both Trilogy and Metroid Prime 3 being discontinued. While I could sort of understand Trilogy possibly eating into Other M sales due to its being 3 games for the price of 1, discontinuing Corruption didn't make sense - it's a good game, almost anyone playing it would be another potential customer for Other M, and it wouldn't be in direct competition to Other M. So why have both Trilogy and Corruption been discontinued? In order to make place for 3 budget titles - Metroid 1, 2 and 3 each sold separately, at a total price probably higher than Metroid Trilogy. This would increase the potential market for Other M without competing with it as directly as Trilogy (on a single disk and at the same price as Other M) would have.

makingmusic476 said: Gamerace said: Better pick up WarioLand: Shake it! I've been seeing it discounted but didn't realize it was discontinued. I should also pick up that new copy of Strikers Charged I've seen at the video store. Nothing surprising here though. These titles aren't selling. NPC Pikmin really underperformed. I doubt we'll see NPC Pikmin 2 in NA now. Worries me that such soft sales (even in JP) might derail Pikmin 3. Where's NPC Mario Golf? That would be an easy 1m for Nintendo. Rumblings on gaf are that NPC is dead.  After the weak sales of Pikmin, they bundled MP1/2 with MP3 to make the Trilogy rather than releasing them on their own as a last ditch attempt to see if the rereleases could ever put up good numbers.  When that also struggled to be a real success (by Nintendo's standards), they canceled the entire line, hence why we've heard nothing about Pikmin 2, Mario Golf, or any of the other announced NPC line up in over a year. If true it sucks.  The only rereleases I really wanted were Super Mario Sunshine and the Wind Waker, for the improved performance and 480p.

I've bee waiting for NPC Wind Waker to come out ever since NPC series came out. But it seems like the only time I'll get to play that is when the Twii comes over and offers it in the VC. Don't feel like expending money and time looking for controller, memory and game here in Spain.