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MDMAlliance on 21 December 2014
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spemanig said:
MDMAlliance said:

That's honestly a really bad idea. Your idea of what it should be is based off of your perception of what would be best for yourself as a customer and how much you think they spent on the game. Doing that would significantly reduce profits for many companies, or may even just bankrupt them.


Firstly, it definitely would not bankrupt them. Second, the rise in sales volume from the cheaper price would offset any profits per game sold. NSLU is nearly double it's sales, and that's just DLC for another Mario game. That's all due to appropriate pricing.


I did NOT say that it would bankrupt Nintendo.  I was saying that some, if not many, companies would bankrupt if they all decided to go with your suggested pricing model. Which ones are debateable. We've already seen some gaming studios go bankrupt recently, the change you're talking about would only make the situation worse.

And for your second point, there's no proof that pricing it at half the price would double or more than double the sales. It isn't impossible, but it's unlikely that pricing DKC: TF at $20 or $30 (at launch) would have increased the sales enough to offset the profits it made with its current pricing. Believe it or not, the way these things work is NOT as clear as you think it is. 

Your example for NSLU is cherry picking at best, due to the fact that NSLU is coming from a MUCH more popular franchise.
See?

PosGamePlatformYearGenrePublisherNorth AmericaEuropeJapanRest of WorldGlobal
1 New Super Mario Bros. DS 2006 Platform Nintendo 11.18 9.04 6.49 2.87 29.58
2 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii 2009 Platform Nintendo 14.10 6.72 4.69 2.18 27.70
3 New Super Mario Bros. 2 3DS 2012 Platform Nintendo 2.89 2.26 2.32 0.50 7.97
4 New Super Mario Bros. U WiiU 2012 Action Nintendo 2.05 0.90 1.22 0.25 4.42
5 New Super Luigi U WiiU 2013 Platform Nintendo 1.11 0.49 0.15 0.14 1.89

 

PosGamePlatformYearGenrePublisherNorth AmericaEuropeJapanRest of WorldGlobal
1 Donkey Kong Country SNES 1994 Platform Nintendo 4.36 1.71 3.00 0.23 9.30
2 Donkey Kong Country Returns Wii 2010 Platform Nintendo 3.10 1.69 1.03 0.45 6.26
3 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest SNES 1995 Platform Nintendo 2.10 0.74 2.20 0.11 5.15
4 Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! SNES 1996 Platform Nintendo 1.17 0.50 1.75 0.08 3.51
5 Donkey Kong Country GB 2000 Platform Nintendo 1.04 0.72 0.30 0.13 2.19
6 Donkey Kong Country GBA 2003 Platform Nintendo 1.20 0.48 0.29 0.07 2.04
7 Donkey Kong Country Returns 3DS 2013 Platform Nintendo 0.58 0.45 0.37 0.10 1.50
8 Donkey Kong Country 2 GBA 2004 Platform Nintendo 0.79 0.27 0.12 0.04 1.23
9 Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze WiiU 2014 Platform Nintendo 0.38 0.25 0.12 0.06 0.82


Also, NSLU actually DID have a retail release, despite it being "DLC."