I agree the eshop is somewhat flawed.
Eshop games should at least be 15% cheaper than retail games.
Because:
1. Retail usually wants 20% so when you buy a $70 game at a retail store the store gets around $14 the rest goes to Nintendo/Dev/Publisher.
2. They dont have to make physical disks, manuals etc. which is not expensive at all but it still reduces the costs. So lets say this is 1% of the costs (even if its not).
So by pricing a $70 retail game at $55 (70/100* 21%). Nintendo/etc. would earn as much money as they would earn with the retail version.
But this might weaken the physical sales (which retailers certainly dont want to happen)
So if they would decide to discount digital games by only 15% they would still earn 6% more than with a retail game. And the game would be $59,99 instead of retail $70.
People that care about manuals disks etc the "collectors" would still buy at retail but people that dont need that stuff would be happy that they save $10 on a game.
The Demo thing is a problem because there is not enough games out there. And I am pretty sure that if Warner or EA dont want Batman or MassEffect as a DEMO Nintendo cant do a thing. So I hope time will fix this problem.
The biggest Problem for me is the VC pricing tho.
NES Games should cost 1 dollar (special ones* up to $3)
SNES Games $3 (special ones up to $5)
N64 Games $5 (special ones up to $8) and
GC Games $10 (special ones up to $13)
* special ones = first released in a territory with new translation (like Sin&Punishment for the N64 was on Wii)
that would be the correct WiiU VC pricing.
I mean I bought Balloon Fight for 30 cents and was shocked that this old things regular price is going to be 4/5? loool
