Just let say Nintendo is not clean like what people believe, they also sometimes make a mistake and doing shady business a long with SONY and Microsoft. For the example you can see how much the price of the Wii U and many of their old gen consoles. They pricing is a bit of step and mimicking Apple product (overprice as hell)

I'm not sure what you need me to explain. It's a pretty straightforward statement.

Every time I see an obvious Nintendo fanboy trying to defend Nintendo I can't help but cringe and ignore everything they say. I am sorry :(

- Moderated, Carl

Eh, I can only speak for myself, but when looking to buy a console the first thing I look is the number of exclusive games it has that I really want to play, with the next thing beign the appeal (in the Switch case, it sucks) and price of the console itself, never do I pay attention to the price of the games.

I also believe that the price of Nintendo games is fair for the most part and I don't mind them not beign discounted as time passes, if I really want a game I'm willing to pay full price for it no matter if it's day one or two years after release. They do have some greedy decisions like charging $ 60 instead of the original $ 50 for a barely improved port, like DKTC, but those are rare cases and not the norm, Bayonetta 1 + 2 for example had the same price the Wii U version had at launch.

That said, with the laughable concept of the Switch I do worry that them and other companies will try to pass games that were developed with a handheld budget as home console games and charging $ 60 for them 'cause the tablet you're using to play them now is also a "home console" (hello, Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate)

Since Nintendo never discounts their SW, wouldn't that create a better environment for third-parties to do so with their product and in turn gain more sales? Sony and MS discounting their SW over time makes it more competitive with other third-party/etc. SW, while, according to this OP, turns people away from buying Nintendo's SW.

Do you have examples of people defending the prices? If you happen to think that I or some other posters in this thread did - we didn't. We explained that they follow a different strategy, with all its ups and downs.

I blame Steam for this entire debate.

The prices slash so often on that thing...

This have been discussed a lot of times. No-Nintendo fans think it's abusive, some Nintendo fans agree and others support the practice and say that Nintendo games are more valuable and deserve to keep the price for longer.

Most games, even more for non-Nintendo, sell most of their SW at full price, with the big bulk on FW and FM (like half of sales being 1st month). The prices usually drop after 6-12m at that point they would have sold most of the SW already and the gold edition with dlc and discounted is bonus sales.

We had a thread about it less than 2 months ago, go there and you'll see people defending it. And you just saw someone on this same page doing it with the guise of "Nintendo doesn't need defense, I'm just explaining the logic";

Console games (except Nintendo) have had discounts long before Steam.

Nintendo games as a rule of thumb hold their value as they're often described as Timeless classics, it's a strange one but it basically means if you want to buy a copy of the new Pokemon game you might as well buy it at launch because it's unlikely that waiting a few months will grant you the discount which places like Sony / MS often offer with their own Software.

Helps them get great day 1 sales to break records and such because if you go and find any of the 3ds versions of pokemon right now new on store shelves you'll probably find them at a price similar to day one.