Why do Nintendo game prices never fall?

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mZuzek said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

They do not lol. How many copies of Tropical Freeze sold last week? The reason they stay at full prices is because Nintendo wants to make money, period. Nothing wrong with that, as they are great games. But there really isn't anything more to it.

Are you kidding me? If I remember correctly Tropical Freeze launched to only like 300k units sold. Look where it is now. Sure, it might not be a huge hit like Mario Kart, but it has legs and was still selling months and months after it was released, and still is.

Want a better example? Just check the charts, you'll find Mario Kart Wii, still charting practically every single week despite being an 8 year old game on a previous gen console.

Really, Nintendo games are way less frontloaded than any other games, so there is no reason to slash the price in half after merely a few weeks to keep the momentum going, they just keep selling over the course of an entire generation, and some games even 2 generations when backwards compatible.