Erik Aston on 26 May 2008
| supermario128 said: I think TP will pass it eventually, especially when it comes down to $20. |
I'm pretty sure it won't come down to $20 for a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.
You can pretty much kiss "Player's Choice" goodbye. Nintendo wants to avoid price cuts.
Price cuts, especially after just a few months, really screw over the core audience of a particular title, and encourage them not to buy early, and so Nintendo has stated several times that they're trying to move away from that model--both with hardware and software.
You don't see DVDs or CDs drop in price over time, after all.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
