Cheebee said:
You're a bit ignorant you know, because if you'd bothered to try a 5-second Google search, you'd have known developers/publishers choose their own pricepoints on Nintendo's systems. (As Baddman and HylianSwordsman before me pointed out) they get to freely decide when to do sales and for how long, and can offer their game(s) at whatever price they desire. If you deem this particular game too expensive at $20, then you should blame Nordic Games, as they publish it and set its price. They could have offered it for $5, but they chose $20. That's their decision, not Nintendo's. Nintendo decides about games like Paper Mario because they're 1st party games THEY themselves developed/published. Not so for 3rd party games (like Darksiders 2 in this case). However I'd also like to point out to you that retailers (like Amazon you mentioned) set their own prices, and Nintendo's 1st party games selling for high prices long after release means they still sell decent amounts. That's why they're commonly referred to as 'evergreen' games, because they keep on seeing demand for years. Nintendo doesn't decide if Amazon (for example) keeps selling Mario games for $5 or $50 for 5 years; that's up to Amazon. If the games sell well, why lower the price? The Resistance games you mentioned apparently didn't sell well anymore, because if they did, they'd also still be sold for higher prices. It's economics 101. Maybe think before you post in the future? Or at least bother to find out if you're right, if you're going to make such a fuss about it and then turn out to be completely wrong after all. It's a bit silly. -------- Sorry about the double post, guys! |
Just playing Devil's advocate here, but how do you explain Darkisders 2 being on (a respectable) sale on Steam and psn and not on eshop? Do you think it's possible that people who work for valve contact the publishers themselves and actively pursue a sale? Is it possible that people who work for ninty are not greedy, just not good at that part of their jobs? I bought a 3ds a few months ago and was looking for cheap games to buy and to my surprise there were almost none (cheap) either 1st or third party games. On Vita, on the other hand, I ended up buying more than 10 games from 3rd parties when they were on sale. Games like the walking dead or persona 4 golden.
Third party publishers keeping the price high on ninty platforms over sony/pc/xbl makes little sense to me.
