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Metallicube on 01 March 2010
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ameratsu said:

@Mr Kahn: There should be benefits to being a late adopter, such as lower game prices. Nintendo's strategy of keeping game prices the same simply means I buy less older Nintendo games. I'm not paying $50 for any game that's been out for months let alone years and isn't particularly rare/hard to find.

I find it crazy that someone who buys a Wii at the end the generation may have to pay full retail for games that are 4-5 years old. I know why Nintendo does it, but the lack of lower prices for older games means I'm not buying unless I can get it used cheaply.

I dunno, many people don't seem to have a problem spending $60 on HD games, so I don't see the problem in people spending $40-$50 on Wii games. Plus, as some mentioned earlier, many of the Nintendo games still at full price or near it tend to be games with high replay value anyway, Mario Kart Wii, SSBB, NSMB Wii, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit, etc. I noticed the price of a game often tends to correspond with the replay value, and overall quality of the game.

But that is one of the main reasons I tend to buy a lot of Wii 3rd party titles, since so many of them go unsold at full price so they sink in price very quick, at which point I snag them at $20-$30. I think that is what I plan on doing with games coming out soon too like Red Steel 2.

So while many Nintendo games remained priced high, you can also find a ton of great games that have sunk below many HD games in price. So it tends to even out. I just bought NiGHTS for like $4 on amazon, House of the Dead: Overkill for $12, and Dawn of Discovery for $15.