MrT-Tar said:
Prices are kept high because of the excess demand for certain games (NSMBWii, MKWii, etc). Nintendo has probably kept the wholesale price for those games the same, but retailers won't reduce their prices because they are continuing to sell. Even if Nintendo sold those games to the retailers at half the current price, very little if any of that would be felt by consumers as the excess demand still exists for such games, therefore keeping prices at that level. I utterly detest the free market, but that's how it works. |
Nintendo also lowers the production of certain games to a point to where the supply is low enough to keep the price high. It has always been that way. They keep the prices high. It's in a thread around here, I'll look for it.
