Yes that's why their first party titles drop in price so well with time

oh wait

actually there are quite a few games that dont launch for 60 bucks on PS360, the MOVE/Kinect only games, late ports, games like Sonic Generations, they are fewer in number but they are there

You are adjusting for inflation out of context. Those games were released on more expensive hardware compents. A disc costs nowhere near as much to manufacture or ship as a cartridge nor does it require as many resources or take as long.

The cost of the data on the disc is not set in stone. Nintendo made the Wii U with the intent of making games as easy to develop as they were with the Wii and also as inespensive. Then thee is also the downloadable service which removes retailer cost altogether.

Listing things like inflation and dates don't matter much. There are many, much more important factors and workable factors.

200 sounds cool, but with MS and Sony next consoles probably launching at 350-400, Nintendo will have a bad time engaging in pricing wars.

When PS4 drops from 400 to 350 >>> Wii U 170
from 350 to 300 >>> Wii U 140
PS4 drops to 250 >>> "fuck this shit, we should have sold the Wii U at 250 at launch, man."

im not one to be a dick, but that post just made no sense what so ever.

This does not compute.

All I can say is anyone who grumbles about game prices does not shop.  I have well over 40 brand new titles in past five years I spent less than $20 on, half of those were less than $10.  Games go on sale all the time nowadays, often within weeks of release date (ex: about a 90% chance I will be able to find Assassin's Creed 3 for under $40 by Christmas 2012 and under $20 by Saint Patrick's 2013) so the whole $60 price point seems far more loose than it did in Super Nintendo days.  Good time to be a gamer on a budget.

i don't care how much a game costs on a disc or cartridge to make, you were talking about affordability and that doesn't matter if a single game per dvd/cartridge for a developer costs 10 or 500 bucks to make, i can afford it much easier nowaday than i could in the past with snes or n64 games because my loan did increase faster than game prices did and compared to the whole market inflation of other products was higher than inflation of game prices.

nowadays i can wait and buy a new game few months after release on zavvi or so for 20-30 bucks, after not only one year i can buy a game like rayman origins for 13€ for ps3/360, i could never do that so cheap for snes or n64 games, therefore gaming is much cheaper nowadays for me and i have to laugh if people think gaming is expensive nowadays and wouldn't be affordable with a 60 price tag at release which would be the price for games releasing in the next 8 years or so which makes it even cheaper than the 60 nowadays for 360/ps3 games

When was the last time Zelda Informer rumors turned out to be true again?

I'm cooking dinner while posting, but what I TRIED to say is that:

everytime PS4 or X720 drop the price, Nintendo gotta react right ? They need to react with a price cut too. And launching at 200, doesn't give them much room for pricecuts, and going bellow 140 bucks is not feasible anymore in this days.

Even the Wii hasn't dropped to 99$ yet.