Opinion : EA should reposition its Wii U offerings (on the eShop)

[fleischr]

Arcturus said:

fleischr said:

Arcturus said:
Yes, they should adjust their prices on eShop titles to make them more inline with retail prices.

Out of curiosity, what are eShop prices like for 1+ year old Nintendo 1st party titles?

Nintendo's retail and eShop offerings pretty much stand firm at full retail price. The only one to get a price cut was Game & Wario. Wii Fit U is offered @ $30, but you need to buy the fit meter and balance board anyway.

Ubisoft generally has more contemporary prices. AC3 is $20. Rayman Legends is $40. But for some reason, they still sell ZombiU for $60 on the eShop.

Thanks for the info.

Is it common for Nintendo to continue selling 1+ year old titles at full price? They could probably drum up more interest in the Wii U if they dropped the price on older title.

Nintendo's own pricing is so often stuck in the past it's way past silly, but they're starting to improve.

At retail, you'll still pay $50 for Zelda : Skyward Sword and many other Wii titles from several years ago.

I find it amazing that Mario Kart Wii -- which was released in 2008, regularly charts in weekly top 75 at $40 a pop. Maybe Nintendo just knows things we don't with regards to pricing. But why they take pass on the marginal profits that can be made off laggards is still beyond me.

As for Wii U titles with a significant retail price cut, the Wonderful 101 sells at retail/Amazon for $20-30. I think it's still $60 on the eShop, but they've had some flash sales on it in the past as well. Nintendoland sells new for around $20-30 too. Seems to have helped TW101 -- it didn't have a lot interest to begin with, but now it charts regularly in the top 5 best-selling wii U games on Amazon. Given that Nintendoland is a bundled game, it's hard to say what the price cut does for its sales.

To their credit, they seem to have gotten a little more pragmatic. They give an 10% back in eShop credit if a game is purchased digitally -- but that only applies if you have the deluxe set. The redemption process for that could be improved significantly.