| Bandorr said: On average a retailer will give you $15 for Mario Kart 8. That is 4 months before the switch comes out, The price could easily fall to $10 by then. You think stores will be trading a brand new $60 game for a $10 dollar old game? No possible way. |
A retailer doesn't see the $15 as the total value of that game. They see it as a $25 value as they intend to resell it.
Plus, they didn't pay $60 for the new game and its very likely that these "director cuts" won't be $60 games either.
When you consider the real cost, the potential for resell, the liklihood that these will be $40 games at launch and that Nintendo's part of making an agreement would absolutely mean they'd give credits to the retailer to drive a launch (all marketing budget)... this is very much reasonable. As someone who worked many years in retail... this is defintely a norm.
