HappySqurriel on 05 March 2007
stewacide said:
Sony could only sell Sony-owned games for such a low, low price. And Sony doesn't make many games. 3rd parties would want a lot more than a dollar! (look what Nintendo's getting them for even older content!)
Point: you can't give away other people's content as a loss-leader!!!
QFT
I expect that a lot of the reason the Virtual Console games are "so expensive" is that the "hardware-developer" wants to make a fair ammount of money, the game publisher wants to make a fair ammount of money, and Nintendo wants to make a fair ammount of money. As an example:
For a Sega Master System game Sega wants $1.50, the publisher wants $2.00 and Nintendo wants $1.50 ...
Certainly, Nintendo makes a killing on their own games but I doubt that Sega would have allowed their systems to be emulated if Nintendo was going to have a dramatic price advantage ...
