| superchunk said: You don't get value proposition do you? Honda's keep their value FAR better than any other. Yet you wouldn't say they are anti-consumer. Fact is Nintendo builds teh best game content that over time is STILL WORTH THE ORIGINAL PRICE to consumers. 3rd parties simply don't make that type of game. If they did, then they would keep the price up as well. A company drops price when it feels the value is not longer there and consumer purchasing proves that. This is why Wii U is selling like crap as the mass consumer doesn't see the value in it at $300 because the mostly see "wii" and that's a $100 hardware. But Zelda Twilight Princess was still $50 (full price) five years after it released because Zelda games retain high value. |
Nintendo doesn't make that type of game, either. It's not that their software still flies off of the shelves years later at full price. With very few exceptions, it doesn't. It's just that they are not willing to devalue their software by training their consumers to wait a month to buy their games at 1/3 of the original price. Which is not difficult to understand, because they are a very conservative corporation and gaming is all they do.
