What phrase are you fed up of seeing in the forums?

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spemanig said:

bigtakilla said:

Especially if Nintendo could reduce the price of games by saving distribution costs and paying retailers less because the only shelf space they'd need is for a console. Would definitely attract people who don't care about having physical things cluttering their house, and they can get games at $45 instead of $65 (if not less) and have games preinstalled so they can play it midnight of the release date. 

 

I can see that attracting people.

I think that people expecting games to launch at less than $60 as a standard will be disappointed. Nintendo has made their stance clear on that. They think it devalues games.

That's why the rewards aspect of the membership program is so important. It allows them to circumvent that while still retaining premium pricing, since the only way you will get the deals is by spending money on games. People are going to compare the program discounts and deals to Steam sales. That's how fleible it will be.

From what I understand, they think releasing digital titles at a lower price than retail versions of the same game devalues them, for example u won't see them release a game for $60 retail but with a $40 digital version. However, if they go with an all digital platform like u speculate they are, than that no longer becomes an issue since they aren't devaluing anything.

We have seen them do this already to a small degree with some games, Mario vs Donkey Kong used to be a $30 retail release back on GBA/DS but this generation it has become a $15 digital only series. Other games like Pushmo/Crashmo/Dilllon's Rolling Western/Dr. Luigi are games that they would have sold for $30 retail back in the day but are instead only $15 because they are digital only.

I think if they do go all digital than its possible that software becomes more affordable regardless of the new membership program.