Garcian Smith on 13 November 2007
| thranx said: "Also keep in mind that digital distribution of normal games would result in the publisher - not the secondary market - setting the standard price for games" Not really, just as now, the market will set the price, and for convience sake i would pay upto 15 dollars of old games, i am willing to pay that right now with games with the vc on the wii if they are that much. and publishers will not price themselves out of the market, and thay are not always out to gouge, they are just out to make a good profit. |
Because they're the only legal medium of distribution for those old games in your scenario, the publishers could charge more than what the secondary market would normally pay and people would still pay them. They couldn't reasonably price themselves out of the market, unless they started charging absurd prices, because they ARE the market. Read up on how a monopoly works sometime
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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