They really should start doing it uniformly for some of these C-list games. Like Excitebots (though that already started at a discount)

Yeah, I remember Player's Choice back in the day.

the milestone of sales was rather arbitrary. i remember some games that could not have sold too much before they were selected for players choice back in the 64 era, like Waialae Country Club.

I really would like to see a good player's choice line come up for the holidays.
A good number of early Wii releases could benefit from a bit of extra sales at a lower price point. Elebits, SMB: Banana Blitz, Warioware, Super Paper Mario, and Big Brain Academy come to mind.

Others that could be helped, but have sequels that would see lower sales as a result of cheaper prequels, like ExciteTruck and Sonic and the Secret Rings are likely never to see re-release at a cheaper price point.
Business is a bummer.

They currently do not exist, because Nintendo are greedy f*ckers!

Zelda:TP (a launch title), Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 8, Mario & Sonic, Galaxy, Brawl etc, all still sell at full retail price of $49.99, and the only way to get them cheaper is pray that Amazon has some sort of DOTD on one of them.

Same thing with their DS line-up... Mario Kart, New SMB, all the Pokemon games etc, still sell for their $34.99 MSRP.

Now you know one of the reasons why Nintendo does so well financially. I still haven't picked up TP because I refuse to pay $50 for a launch title!

Wow, TP is still $50?

They used to but eventually realized it was a money pit.

Not to offend anybody that loves taking advantage of this, but "greatest hits" is for companies that make games with expiration dates.

Nintendo makes a lot of games with a timeless appeal, even today their games sell for years.

Pick up the Gamecube version instead: it's harder to track down, but much cheaper, and it's the same game minus Rollout or whatever that minigame was called.

Yeah I thought about doing that too (saw a used copy for $14.99 not too long ago), but I really wanted the Wii version since it supports motion controls and has widescreen support.  The way I look at it, I might as well just wait for the next Zelda to come out since that'll prolly happen before the Wii version's price drops lol.

@Azelover... that's certainly true in some cases, but look at some of the biggest selling titles of the previous 2 generations like FF7-9 on the PS1 and the GTA games on PS2... within a year of each game's respective release they were part of the "Greatest Hits" line-up and had a price drop to $19.99, despite the fact that they were still selling well after their initial releases.

Now contrast that with Nintendo's Player's Choice line-up, where even then games were more expensive than their competitors' equivalent GH lineups ($39.99 on N64 because of the cartridge format and $29.99 on the GC), and in both generations Nintendo waited until 2 years after each system's launch to introduce the Players Choice lineup of games.  It's now been nearly 3 years after the Wii's launche and 5 years for the DS, and we STILL haven't seen any kind of price reduction of their main lineup of games.

why should nintendo lower the price, when they're making shit tons of money. Its bad for consumers like me, which is why i rarely buy nintendo games nowadays at full price.

Nintendo always have been really stingy with their prices. This may be too long ago for many here to know, but Nintendo lost a class action suit that was brought against them by multiple vendors with the NES. Nintendo would not allow any of them to have sales on any of their games. Nintendo had to send out millions of something like $10 coupons for their products. However, there is a reason they eek out profit with everything they make. They are very savy.