why the hell do first party nintendo games stay expensive for so long?

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Mummelmann said:

sethnintendo said:

Smidlee said:

Mummelmann said:

Nintendo games are expensive and always have been. Deal with it.

That's true. Nintendo always tries to keep their prices for games as high as possible which helps made Ps1 to succeed.

Least I don't have to throw down an extra 10 dollars per game this generation compared to 360/PS3.  PS1 was successful for a few other reason besides price (However, price definitely did help, aka PS3 not dominating because of high initial price).

Actually, here in Norway, Wii games cost more than PS360 games and DS games cost more than PSP games. Some games cost the same at launch (like Black Ops on all platforms) but the PS360 ones are marked down after a while and the Nintendo counterpart remains priced highly. I also remember the N64/Playstation era when a PS game cost around 500NOK and a Nintendo game cost around 800-850 NOK (No, I'm not kidding). In the end, this could possibly hurt revenue imo, its better to sell two copies with a ten dollar profit than one copy with fifteen (or zero copies). This is simple business; lower price equals higher demand, higher demand equals higher product volume and sales and thus higher profits even with a price slightly marked down.

In the end though, I don't really care since I have yet to purchase a single Nintendo game this generation. And, besides, I pay the least for any game at any rate since I play on my PC.

Seriously? damn you need to come over here to Sweden, here Wii games costs everything from 100-150 SeK less then PS3/360 games