Do "greatest hits" exist for Nintendo?

[NightDragon83]

noname2200 said:

NightDragon83 said:
They currently do not exist, because Nintendo are greedy f*ckers!

Zelda:TP (a launch title), Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 8, Mario & Sonic, Galaxy, Brawl etc, all still sell at full retail price of $49.99, and the only way to get them cheaper is pray that Amazon has some sort of DOTD on one of them.

Same thing with their DS line-up... Mario Kart, New SMB, all the Pokemon games etc, still sell for their $34.99 MSRP.

Now you know one of the reasons why Nintendo does so well financially. I still haven't picked up TP because I refuse to pay $50 for a launch title!

Pick up the Gamecube version instead: it's harder to track down, but much cheaper, and it's the same game minus Rollout or whatever that minigame was called.

Yeah I thought about doing that too (saw a used copy for $14.99 not too long ago), but I really wanted the Wii version since it supports motion controls and has widescreen support.  The way I look at it, I might as well just wait for the next Zelda to come out since that'll prolly happen before the Wii version's price drops lol.

@Azelover... that's certainly true in some cases, but look at some of the biggest selling titles of the previous 2 generations like FF7-9 on the PS1 and the GTA games on PS2... within a year of each game's respective release they were part of the "Greatest Hits" line-up and had a price drop to $19.99, despite the fact that they were still selling well after their initial releases.

Now contrast that with Nintendo's Player's Choice line-up, where even then games were more expensive than their competitors' equivalent GH lineups ($39.99 on N64 because of the cartridge format and $29.99 on the GC), and in both generations Nintendo waited until 2 years after each system's launch to introduce the Players Choice lineup of games.  It's now been nearly 3 years after the Wii's launche and 5 years for the DS, and we STILL haven't seen any kind of price reduction of their main lineup of games.