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burninmylight on 29 January 2016
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spemanig said:
burninmylight said:

You're comparing 99 cent mp3 downloads that can easily be purchased on a whim to $40-60 games. PC games = Steam, which runs sales on quality games for bargain bin prices all of the time, many of them fairly new. Ebooks are also on sale quite often, if not outright free because of modern library services.

If Nintendo decides to start offering extremely cheap games that can be bought on impulse or doing huge flash sales, then maybe it could work. But a digital-only console that requires $40-60 per game isn't as comparable to mp3 players, PC gaming and eBooks as you think.

Steam has plenty of full price $60 games and the eshop has plenty of sales and price drops. Let's not make shit up now.

Never said otherwise, and you know I'm not making this up. Of course Steam has plenty of full-price games. There has been what Nintendo considers a major sale going on in the eShops for three weeks now. However, Steam is ridiculous with the amount of full-price and AAA games that go on sale for absolute steals. That's what makes it so popular. People are much more willing to give up the option for physical and accept DRM for bargains.

Meanwhile, here's what's going on with the eShop right now:

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/01/the_north_american_eshop_winter_warm-up_sale_concludes_with_15_more_discounts

 

Wii U eShop

3DS eShop

These sales are OK, but they aren't "OMG DROP EVERYTHING AND BUY!!" good. They aren't, "YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO TAKE THIS OFFER!!" good. They aren't, "YES, I WILL GLADLY TAKE A DIGITAL ONLY CONSOLE FOR THOSE PRICES!!" good. If you scroll down to the comment section, you will find most of the readership disappointed in them. Those type of sales won't cut it for a digital-only console. Like I said, you can't compare $1 smartphone games to $40-60 console games.