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Seriously, i've always wonder this. Even months after a game has been released it still maintains it's release price, and even if it does fall it only falls by like $5.

Like WWHD which is $50 on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Waker-nintendo-wii-u/dp/B002I0GF72/ref=lp_4924901011_1_5?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1424212423&sr=1-5

Or Tropical Freeze which is still also $50

http://www.amazon.com/Donkey-Kong-Country-Tropical-Freeze-Nintendo/dp/B00DC7O77A/ref=lp_4924901011_1_11?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1424212485&sr=1-11

And unless no one has noticed the Wii U isn't exactly in the best position.



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If people want to buy them at full price there is no point in lowering the price. That is the only answer i have for you



Encourages more full-price sales. When Nintendo has a lemon, retailers take the heat for dumping it in the bargain bin, but Nintendo fights that. That way, those near-million sales of Tropical Freeze brought in around $40 million or more, guaranteed, because the price never dropped.



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Lookat sales after a year. It still sells (legs), and most nintendo games dont get traded in keepig the value up.



Cause Nintendo doesn't make annual franchises (except Pokemonsh) and that is how they make money. Games like Mario Kart, SSB, WWHD, DK and etc come like once a generation and this is how they can make the most money out of them cause they know that people that want them would buy them regardless



                  

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Because they don't like people paying less.



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Because they need to make as much money as possible and the limited library means most of their games will still sell at a high price. It also helps that most of them are high quality. I don't blame them but it sucks for bargain bin players on Nintendo systems.



The games sell no matter what.
Plus, the quality for Nintendo games is a lot higher than the "AAA mature multi plat gems"



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Sometimes, they fall. Sometimes, they fall pretty quickly. Depends on if they are in demand.