| happydolphin said:
Ok, I can work with this. In my opinion, the effects of an improper markeup is only visible in the follow-up to the original "rip-off" (except in the case of those who are ok with the price). In other words, until the sequels come out showing a lack of sales, it's hard to say. One example of a failure is Nintendogs + Cats. We know that that strategy is no longer working for Nintendo, people got the idea and it's not going to sell any more. Same goes with Brain Age. Though NSMB U was meant to be a system seller, it wasn't able to push U sales like it was expected to. For example, NSMB 2 seems to be doing less well than its predecessor. It would indicate that people are coming to understand that the game is marked up as compared to what alternative entertainment they may be enjoying atm. |
While what you're saying is true, there are about a million other reasons for which Nintendo has seen a decline in some of its recent games. I don't know about Brain Age, but both Nintendogs and NSMB, some of my favourite games on the DS, were much less entertaining for me on the 3DS. And, mind you, I've never even seen what this so-called competition looks like so the value of these games has just declined independently for me. How do we know that this isn't the case for everyone else?
We can see that this clearly doesn't apply to all of Nintendo's successful DS games since Mario Kart is holding on just fine on the 3DS, 3D Mario (although it's practically 2D) is doing better than ever and AC is breaking records everywhere in Japan. I'm sure these games have some cheap competition, too, but it doesn't seem to be affecting them.
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