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

[TruckOSaurus]

happydolphin said:

TruckOSaurus said:

You side-stepped my point. Let's say you consider Movie A and Movie B to be equally enjoyable and entertaining, why do you care that one cost 200millions to make and the other 2million?

Trucks, I didn't side-step it. If you look closely, you're making the same point as Nikkom. In this case, the 200m$ costing movies are under-priced because otherwise they would never sell. Like he was saying they should be sold at 50$ a ticket, that would never work. Instead, they mark it down to increase volume.

Ironically enough, that's what I was telling you regarding a markdown of these Nintendo games. Sadly your point on HW is a good one, and though it could boost HW sales, Nintendo's HW strategy does not warrant apple-like or tablet-like sales. It's too niche I'm afraid.

Movie studios know full well the average price of a movie ticket, when they green light a project it's because they expect enough people will be interested in seeing the movie to make a profit. So no, the ticket price for big budget films is not underpriced. It is what it is and it's a variable movie studios have to work with.