chakkra on 18 February 2015
| naruball said: One of the many reasons I've only bought like 4 games for my 3ds, 5 for wii, and over 200 for ps3 and over 100 for psvita. They have every right to keep the price as high as they want, but I refuse to pay it. Why do they do it? It's exactly what Pokoko said. Because they can. With Wiiu the consumer doesn't have that many options and bought the console for Ninty games anyway. Before that, they were dominating and were getting a whole lot of sales from casuals, hence mario kart wii selling over 30m and the wiiu version not having sold even 5m (its numbers are still impressive considering the installbase, but show that the core fanbase is not nearly as big as some people thought). As for the people saying because of quality or because they keep selling, they need to try to think without bias for a second. Obviously both gamers and reviewers thought that Uncharted 2 was a quality title and it sold very well, but the game got several price cuts. A whole lot of Ninty games that don't sell well at all don't get any price cuts. And the ones that are out of print, they are for a reason, i.e. the game doesn't sell well enough to justify more copies being made. Quality and sales have little to do with it. Sales had in the past (Mario Kart and Smash kept selling for years), but not any more. Maybe it's working for Ninty, maybe, in the long term, it's not. Had I found a Zelda game at a reasonable price and bought it, I could have been introduced to the series and become a fan. I could have bought the rest of available zelda games and even a wiiu for the wiiu zelda game. Because it was so expensive, I gave up. Is it really a good idea for Ninty to keep the prices so high? Maybe, maybe not. I, personally don't think so. I became a fan of the Elder Scrolls after buying Skyrim on steam for like 2 quid. I think it's part of the reason Steam became so successful or that people choose ps4 over other consoles. There are tons of deals that make gaming feel/appear to be cheaper. |
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