Enough of the Nintendo Conspiracy Theory

[forest-spirit]

happydolphin said:

pokoko said:
What bothers me is that everything is fed into the "third-parties are trying to sink Nintendo" machine, even when there is a perfectly rational explanation at hand for a particular situation. Logic tells us that most businesses operate with profits as their top priority, not secret grudges that span generations and several different CEOs.

For example, I've been hearing people mention that late ports of games already released on the PS3/360 but with a higher price tag on the Wii U is evidence of this. Really? Does that mean that these same companies where trying to oust Sony when the same thing happened to them?

It's really starting to sound crazy.

But then how would you rationally explain the higher price tag?

Well, for starters every company wants more money. Higher price tag means more money, and if you're not expecting a lower price tag to bring in that many extra buyers then you might as well stick with the high one. In many cases it would make sense to release versions of games at a lower price because they're old ports but if you think companies that do lower the price does that out of goodwill then think again. If they can come up with a (in their opinion) good reason for selling these games at full price then they will. Releasing say Deus Ex for Wii U at a higher price makes sense because Squeenix sees it (or wants you to see it) as a completely new game for Wii U owners, and they probably don't expect a lower price to bring in more money.