So it's widely known as a fact that many Nintendo games have ridiculous legs. But here's the question that no one really bother to ask...why is this so?

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milkyjoe said:
In every other industry, when something keeps its price for so long, it's considered an indicator of a high quality product.

Obviously, this cannot be true for Nintendo games.

you forgot to add </sarcasm> to the end of your second sentence.  

But yeah, even though I've been very disappointed with Nintendo's Wii, there's no denying that the Wii's best are unrivaled.  Too bad "Wii Fit" "Wii Play" "Wii sports", and their sequels are all shoddy shovelware.  I'm always kind of torn, becuase Nintendo can get away with selling this crap (or bundling it) and coming out with 80+ million sales, despite putting no effort into them.  Meanwhile, the best games on the system, games like Zelda and Mario Galaxy and smash Brothers, all struggle to hit 10 million.  I mean, 10 million is a good milestone, but why does simple stuff that any other developer would be expected to put out for 10-20 bucks still sell at 50 bucks on the Wii?  I love New Super Mario Brothers Wii, but it's not an especially long or deep game.  If that exact same game was released on PS3 or Xbox 360, it's be a download title and would probably cost 15 bucks.  But no, Nintendo releases a game with mario in the title and people pay 50 bucks for it.  

It's the same mentalty that you can keep releasing movies like Paranormal Activity and Saw, they cost peanuts, but yet people still love seeing them despite the fact that they're not really good.  

I do love Nintendo, and I'm one of those brainwashed masses, but I just don't get how they can sell such insignificant titles for such a profit. Meanwhile, something like Smash Brothers Brawl is easily worth 3x what a normal game is worth, yet sells only 1/3 what something like Mariokart sells.  When factoring in 'best selling games', I don't even include the Wii titles, becuase they're not games, they're tech demos.  I wouldn't include Nintendoland either, but I haven't played it yet so I will hold my thoughts on that one until further notice.