Yeah, Nintendo really shows that they know little about running a service when they get into the online shops. They're learning, but it seems painfully slow in an environment where total overhauls are almost an annual occurrence among the competitors

there's a big difference between full price 1st party software that I can't buy anywhere else and 3rd party games that are half price on other systems

I am just waiting for when I get too old to be able to wipe my own ass.  I feel sorry for the Nintendo bro that has to preform that duty.

While I can agree with the digital content that NEEDS to go on sale, I disagree with you about the Nintendo first party retail stuff.  Some of it goes on sale pretty quickly (Like Metroid Prime 3 and a few others).  The big games--the multi-million sellers don't go on sale because they retain their value.  They stay in demand and people that buy them tend to keep them.  If there were a million copies of Super Mario Galaxy 2 used at Gamestop, I can see the price dropping.  That's not the case.  People that buy a Triple A Nintendo game tend to keep them.  There's no market saturation so there's no price drop.  If a Nintendo game bombs or sells below expectations they follow the same rules as everybody else.

Yeah the nintendo are awful at pricing on wii ware.

They should lower their prices faster I can't understand that we gone find Mario kart 7 for 40$can and mario kart Ds is still between 40-45$can in all stores. Common Nintendo you should sale NSMB and mario kart DS for 20$ at this time in the lifecycle.

last time i checked Rayman is not a Nintendo title, Ubisoft is and they are the ones who decide what price they want for their games not Nintendo!

They're not always the most expensive. Some PS1 games go up on PSN for £7.99 and they're usually the ones people would actually want to play like the Final Fantasy games, which are all still that price, rather than something like Disney's Tarzan going for a couple of pounds. Meanwhile, N64 games go for 1,000 points on the Wii's Virtual Console. 1,000 points is £7...

I also don't agree with their automatic pricing. An 8-bit Nes title is automatically $5 whether it sucks or it rocks. A 16-Bit Snes title is automatically $8. An N64 title is automatically $10. That's so BS.

If Nintendo slashed all their prices of downloadable games in half I'd buy a lot more.