Nintendo's unrealistic pricing for old-school platformers et al.

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happydolphin said:

morenoingrato said:
And yet, I was more glad with the 50 bucks I spent on DKCR than the 10 bucks I spent on Limbo.

Since there is no rational argument that could change your mind about this topic, it's not worth the hassle to explain how people don't feel robbed and it's all a subjective thing.

Try selling Limbo at $50.

I already explained this many times. Even if taste is subjective, when the pricepoint is set by the business, it's based on heuristics and objective measures of demand in the industry.

At the moment, there is growing demand in the games I mentioned in OP, and it matters to me how Nintendo is reacting to that. Though many people have bought NSMB Wii, with the degrading success of the newer entries some of our suspicions are being proven correct, that the price truly wasn't right in the first place. You don't know how much you like a gift until it's unwrapped, that's the principle behind this.

If it's too much of a hassle to explain it's better not to post at all imho. Unless you have a point that you can defend, it's best not to try.

How do you define succes with a NSMB game? The new ones released to smaller userbases, it would be impossible for them to match the success of their predecessors. Attachment rate is probably better, so I would not say it is degrading success. Price seems to have done nothing for it.

 

Point is I think you are cherrypicking, and you cannot really blame it on pricing.