| novasonic said: Whether or not one game is better than the other has nothing to do with pricing. Nintendo and Sony are trying to run a business. When your product is in demand, you can charge a premium for it. When your product starts to slip from the spotlight, you drop the price to boost sales. Obviously Nintendo is very happy with NSMB sales and sees no reason to lower the price. Sony sees LBP sales dropping below what they'd like to see and drops the price to increase sales. That's just how business works. |
This ^^^ If Sony could sell LBP for $40+ they would, but because gamers won't buy it at that price, they are forced to lower the price because of lower demand. But gamers do buy NSMB for well over $40, since the demand is high (shown by the sales) there is no need to lower to the price. People can claim LBP is a better game, but gamers aren't willing to pay a lot to play it; they will however pay a lot to play NSMB, draw from that whatever conclusions you will. A Mercedes is expensive because they can sell them for $75,000 and people will buy it, but you can't sell a Ford Focus for that price.
