Super Smash Bros Brawl surpasss 10M!

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stopstopp said:

MrT-Tar said:

stopstopp said:

Pyro as Bill said:

I like how Sony has tricked the newer generations into believing in price cuts and the 'Platinum/BUDGET' range. Works well for gimmicks and fads but not for classics.

Nintendo will cut the price in about 20 years and you'll be buying it as a CLASSIC.

How much does Monopoly retail for these days?

Nintendo keeps games prices high on purpose (For profit I believe, but I'm not completely sure if it works on all their games, so I'm not completely sure), not because it is a CLASSIC.

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.

Well, I actually have a theory. Nintendo does not lower the price of their games because it devalues both the game and the franchise. The only games that have gotten a lower price in the past several years are games that Nintendo does not plan to do anything more with. I believe that Nintendo has acknowledged Wii Music as a failure, hence, its drop to $20 MSRP before going out-of-print. But, anything that Nintendo plans on doing more with, they will sooner stop printing than drop the price on, to ensure they can sell more of the next game at a higher price. Thus, games like Radiant Dawn are relegated to being rather hard to find. Nintendo knows, release Radiant Dawn cheap, and when the next Fire Emblem game comes out, some people who may have paid $50 for it may just wait instead for the cheaper release. This impacts the bottom line; it forces them to find more franchises to bring in the money instead, since the old ones with all the price drops just can't hold their value.