Is Epic Mickey a lesson to third parties?

[MaxwellGT2000]

Antabus said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Antabus said:

I don't know about you, but I have seen cheap COD games on Wii pretty often. They hit the 20£ mark in 10 weeks and when most of the stock is sold, the price goes up. I think that is because the retailers don't order more shipments of those games on Wii.

http://www.thehut.com/games/platforms/nintendo-wii/disney-s-epic-mickey/10081014.html

http://www.thehut.com/games/platforms/nintendo-wii/just-dance-2/10215560.html

http://www.thehut.com/games/platforms/nintendo-wii/goldeneye/10215558.html

http://www.thehut.com/games/platforms/nintendo-wii/sonic-colours/10196405.html

Less than 40$ in less than 10 weeks. I picked some games which some people do consider to be  recent quality titles from VGC Wii top sellers list.

 

Uh not only is that not an American retailer but it's online who rarely price things at the MSRP anyway.... I go by what retailers you can physically walk into where most games are sold.  If we go by the MSRP in other countries which is £39.99 it's roughly 64 dollars more than HD titles in the US.

Basically I was speaking for the US region and didn't say anything for the UK/Europe at all, if you'd like to bring up Japan into this you're more than welcome, but it'd still not be the region I was clearly discussing and in no way affects my argument.

 

Ok, so EU/UK does not count. Online retailers do not count. I don't get why do you want to count only MSRP, when you talk about price drops. Sounds like cherry picking to me.

I also don't understand your point with that "£39,99 is roughly 64$ more than HD titles in US". What are you trying say, HD titles are free in US?

Basically you did not mention any region, you are just moving goal posts to suit your own argument.

No it means 64 dollars which is more than the 60 dollar MSRP in America... but you knew that.

My argument was based in the US currency and region, I also only brought up Gamestop prices which is the biggest retailer in the US, basically I was bringing up the standard in the US, since I can't speak for the UK or Japan, that's not moving goal posts since it's exactly what I stated.

Now if you did want to knock me you'd bring up something like CoD was moved back up to 60 dollars, which I did not know was not a permanent price drop as it was 50 dollars for the entire month of Dec, and usually they put the limited time/sale sticker on it if it's not a perm price drop.  

But still games like Lords of Shadow, Darksiders, Brutal Legend, etc get permanent standard price drops in the US (just to clarify) shortly after release and those games will never be the big successes like the CoD or AC brands, so there isn't much reason to gamble like they do putting their companies at risk and they don't even get to sell their game at the 60 dollar standard for more than a couple of months at best.  

FYI I know there was supposed to be a Wii version of Brutal Legend and the company went belly up because of Lair and Brash before it was finished but they could have gave them a little help and kept that company from going under.