JazzB1987 said:
sabastian said:
There are many types of gamers.
The gamer that owns a Wii/ Ps3
The gamer that owns a 360/Wii
The gamer that owns a ps3/360
If your the gamer that only owned a Wii as your sole console last gen, you were the gamer that missed out on a TON of awesome games.......
Th Wii did not help itself when it came to 3rd party titles, and so is the Wii-U.
And as far as I can remember, Nintendo is the only company that has games released over 10 years now and still ask you to pay full price for them. Tell me how is that good for the consumer ?
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I am not saying this is good for consumers. But is it really bad for consumers? I mean If I buy the game for 60 bucks and everyone else also has to pay 60 even 2 years later its actualyl GOOD for me not Bad. For people that want something but dont want to pay the price its obviously not so good but those are obviously not long-time-nintendo gamers because those understand how Nintendo pricing works.
So if keeping the prices high is bad for consumers then starting with a 60 price tag is actually even worse.
I would love to have cheaper games like $30€ but it seems thats not going to happen. When I know the games wont get cheap for a while and I decide to buy them I DO NOT WANT them to get cheaper anytime soon otherwhise I feel bad. Imho you should not penalize early adopters by reducing the price to fast. Just look at how alot of X1 owners cried just because the X1 became cheaper. Its the same. People do not like to pay more than others for the same thing and thats pretty understandable because its unfair.
I am critisizing the stupid industry for thinking that only 3 months count because THEY drop the price and so in THEIR opinion half price sales dont count. Nintendo does not really reduce the price because they dont need to and people are obviously fine with that. Also alot of people argue that NIntendo games have better value. I mean why do you think so many people including me want games to drop in price? Because we know its going to happen sooner than later. I buy Nintendo games day 1 (Wiiu not anymore because 60 is to expensive) because I know they dont and if they start to do it I will stop buying them for the launch price. Its that simple.
Noone but the third parties decide that their games are appereantly not good enough to cost 60 bucks anymore so they drop the price. But the problem Is why do they do that? Make it 30 bucks instead of 60 and keep the price forever if its a good game it will still sell especially when people understand that your games will not drop in price anymore.
As said before I myself stopped buying Nintendo home console games day1 because they went from 50 to 60 with WiiU. Only some very very special games are worth that much money. Stuff like the SkywardSword collectors edition that came with Soundtrack and Wiimote was. But a "generic" game that is like 20 other games made by other companies is def not worth 60 bucks especially when it lacks polish and has day1 DLC etc....
I am not buying games day1 because I see no point in doing that. I will probably play that game next year because my backlog is so huge. But with Nintendo it does not make a difference because if I buy it today or in 2 years it will be launch price so why not buy it today? I can at least occasionally play it and wont feel robbed.
If third parties decide to drop the price so quick its their own fault. They show me that they dont have trust in their own product so they wont see my money untill the game price stabilized and is cheap. (I even get "angry"/"sad" when I buy a discounted game for $5€ and 1 week later its $4€. I just dont like the feeling of "wasting" a dollar. I mean I had no problem with buying LegoCityUndercover and I am still fine with that price because the price is still high.
Lets say I see a game like The Last of Us for 20bucks as a special deal but I missed it I will never pay more than 20 bucks for that game no matter how good it is because I think "if others get it for 20 why should I pay more? I will not do that" and so I wait for a price drop even if it takes years. This is how I work.
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In this world that we live in, EVERYTHING drops in price after time, EVERYTHING. Unless its a collectors piece.
Its the nature of itself. Bigger and better comes out, the newest edition comes out, black and white moves to color, 20 inch turnes to 42 inch, DVD turnes to Blu-Ray, NES moves to Gamecube...........
There is no reason for Nintendo to still charge full price for say Mario Kart Wii. NONE. Other than they think that consumers will still buy it, in which case the consumer is indeed part of the problem itself.
And gamers are not stupid. We gamers buy games, and we buy games all the time, so if your racing game comes out in January priced at $60, you better believe that we who want to play the game will go out and pick it up, but here is the catch, next year you are likely to release another racing game. More tracks, better tech, hopefully better gameplay, better graphics. You Set them both side by side on the store shelf priced at $60 each. Why in the world would any self respecting gamer pay $60 for the last years edition ?
Your logic is flawed. You are aiding Nintendo in lining their pockets, while they drain YOURS.
