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Forums - Nintendo - why the hell do first party nintendo games stay expensive for so long?

homer on 17 December 2010
Galaki said:

Zelda TP for example. Used version is only $5 less than its full retail of $60.

Nintendo certainly don't control the used games price.

I think it has to do with fewer people reselling their games since they mostly are deemed "classics", meaning it's less likely people will sell after they are done with the game.

Supply and demand.


$60 for twilight princess? I don't know if you live in the states or not, but I found Twilight Princess at my local Gamestop for $50(its original price in the states) new and $ 35 used.



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Siko1989 on 17 December 2010

every Nintendo fan will tell you why.. first party nintendo games are just to amazingly fun to give a price drop




Siko1989 on 17 December 2010
homer said:
Galaki said:

Zelda TP for example. Used version is only $5 less than its full retail of $60.

Nintendo certainly don't control the used games price.

I think it has to do with fewer people reselling their games since they mostly are deemed "classics", meaning it's less likely people will sell after they are done with the game.

Supply and demand.


$60 for twilight princess? I don't know if you live in the states or not, but I found Twilight Princess at my local Gamestop for $50(its original price in the states) new and $ 35 used.

thats american price tag, and hes Canadian. all wii games are $60 over there. not everywhere in the world is $50 for a game




theRepublic on 18 December 2010
ameratsu said:

All i'm going to say is that I own several Wii games, but only one of them is first party. I still play the other games, but Nintendo's reluctance to drop their prices simply means they haven't got any of my money since I bought my Wii, period. I understand that I am not their target consumer anymore but I do not think this is okay behaviour. At least when Sony is on top, they reduce the prices of their games after they sell so many copies, or after a certain period of time.

Metroid Trilogy? They discontinued that while stock lasted and for some reason did not rerelease it as a $20-$30 game. Completely unacceptable to me.

Metroid Prime Trilogy was a limited collector's edition.  It was announced as such.  There was zero surprise there.



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FMF on 20 December 2010

Shouldn't the topic title be "What the hell did Nintendo do to Players' Choice?!"



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dislike on 21 December 2010

It has to do with supply and demand as well as greed from nintendo. Super Mario Galaxy has stopped selling, yet with each subsequent Mario game being released, there is a chance that might spark new sales. Also new consoles are being sold each year, and it has an 80 million userbase if i'm not mistakend. So chances are nintendo is being greedy, and want the full $50 dollars, rather than lower the price. Also about supply and demand, If nintendo ships too many copies of said game, and the game ain't selling, retailers tend to lower the price (looks @ metroid prime 3, metroid other m, wario land: shake it, even new super mario bros and mario kart wii were selling @ 34.99 during summer).