Putting the PC cost argument to rest

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amak11 said:

Scisca said:

amak11 said:

Nintendo has no control over Xenoblade copies that are out there. Retailers found some and started selling them at rediculously high prices. Wal-mart is pretty bad for this. They have Other M for 80 dollars at the store in my city. Also, Wonderful 101 recieved a price drop, as did a lot of the launch titles. 

Sure it does. They can release more copies - it's their game for crying out loud! W101 is still way too expensive for what it's worth. At least 2 times too expensive.

No, they don't. That's a god damn verifyable fact. The production run ended a long time ago, and any copies in the wild have already been paid for by the companies who bought them. Therefore they can sell them at whatever price they want, or do you just not know how distribution works?

Nintendo has no direct control over the prices of the circulating copies but for sure they have indirect control over the prices: they just have to start another print run and sell it... or do you just not know how prices are regulated? Supply and demand determine the price... if they enhance the supply and demand stays the same, the price will sink.

Or aren't they allowed to produce more units?