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smbu2000 on 11 November 2011
wiilicious said:
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.

They don't lower the prices on the good selling games, because they still sell well! I just bought Yoshi's Island DS new for 4,000 yen recently and that game is from 2007, I think. I just bought Super Mario 3D Land last week and I paid about 4,200 yen for it, almost the same price! I imagine in a few years it will still be selling for that price.

I bought MK Wii when it released a few years ago and the game still sells for the same price! Just like the MK DS and NSMB, the prices don't come down.




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smbu2000 on 11 November 2011
d21lewis said:
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.

It's usually automatic, but sometimes there are exceptions. For example, some square 16bit games cost more and sometimes N64 games do as well.(OOT I believe) At least on the JP marketplace.




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d21lewis on 11 November 2011
smbu2000 said:
d21lewis said:
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.

It's usually automatic, but sometimes there are exceptions. For example, some square 16bit games cost more and sometimes N64 games do as well.(OOT I believe) At least on the JP marketplace.


Yeah, OOT costs as much as any other N64 title but when a game comes from Japan and never got a US release, they add a bit to it (Like Sin and Punishment).  Japan only Nes games are automatically $6 and N64 games are $12.



fedfed on 11 November 2011

i guess uk prices are a bit cheaper than that!



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smbu2000 on 11 November 2011
d21lewis said:
smbu2000 said:
d21lewis said:
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.

It's usually automatic, but sometimes there are exceptions. For example, some square 16bit games cost more and sometimes N64 games do as well.(OOT I believe) At least on the JP marketplace.


Yeah, OOT costs as much as any other N64 title but when a game comes from Japan and never got a US release, they add a bit to it (Like Sin and Punishment).  Japan only Nes games are automatically $6 and N64 games are $12.

I just checked out the Japan VC store and 3 of the N64 games are 1200 points (normal price is 1000 points): OOT, Majora's Mask and Smash Bros. S&P is the standard price, but I guess that's because it was released here. ;-p

SNES games are usually 800 points, but stuff like Chrono Trigger, FF4, FF5, FF6, SimCity, Super Mario RPG, Link to the Past, Fire Emblem games are all at 900 points.

The good thing about the Japanese VC store is that Sega Genesis (Megadrive) wasn't that popular here so games are only 600 points. (800 points in the US, I believe)




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d21lewis on 11 November 2011

@Rol, price cuts are a weekly thing on XBL and PSN. Once, every Genesis game was marked down to $2 for a couple of days. Some sales are temporary. Some premanent. And get this--sometimes, we get to vote on what's going on sale.