They aren't "getting away" with anything. They keep their prices stable because consumers continue to buy their games at those prices.
this seems like such an obvious thing but there's so many people out there that think other publishers drop game prices cuz it's just the natural order of things or they do it out of the kindness of their heart.
Correct. They would have discounts if they needed discounts. I recall there being Nintendo titles on sale late in the GameCube's life--of course, that's when they were in a bad market position. People are snapping up their console and titles now, so of course they will sell full price.
fair enough, I'm a massive fan of the lateral thinking era of Nintendo under Iwata, it's clearly a distinctive period of Nintendo and if you're not a fan of that then that's fine. I was never a fan of the Nintendo before DS and Wii, and with that going away slightly (there's still a little bit of that spark in switch), I'm feeling less enthusiastic about games as a whole, and never once did I feel short changed by the value provided by ds and Wii, regardless of the internals. Nintendo feeling a lot more in autopilot at the moment, it seems like people are happy with the status quo.
Pretty close to what just went through my mind when I read the thread title. It's like the "Revelations" or "Origins" or something of YouTube channels.
They did eventually do this, btw. GCN, Wii, and Wii U are all proprietary formats.The "well Nintendo didn't use CDs for N64 because they controlled cartridge production so they could charge royalties on cartridge production and wouldn't be able to do that with CDs" never really has made sense to me.
Nintendo is free to charge whatever royalty they want on even a CD system, if they were getting say $15/cartridge (some amount of that going to the cost of the cartridge) on the N64 + $8 licensing fee, they could just charge $8 licensing fee + $8 Nintendo tax for a CD and still make the same of more money because Nintendo themselves would only pay 5 cents for a CD.
Nintendo could have always just made a proprietary CD format, like the SNES CD was supposed to use caddies, they were not jut naked regular CD discs:
Nintendo could've just made that a proprietary format and now as a 3rd party you can't just make your own N64 CD game at any random CD manufacturer because it would be a proprietary format.
I took this to mean all discourse since you didn't specify other points that were reasonable. Regardless, if that wasn't your intent then that's fine.
No, it isn't categorically unethical.
Lolno it wasn't. 3rd party relations were absolutely awful. The switch compared is flooded.
It's not "categorically unethical" to sell a remaster or port for full price, what the hell are you on about? You have every right to be frustrated at Nintendo's console pricing strategy, but it is NOT unethical.
categorically unethical? Man...some of you guys make the worst statements.
This.
Flooded with old PS360 ports, cool I guess? Third party exclusives, a huge part of DS/3DS are way down.
It has both old and new. No need to discredit the other. Fact it's got witcher 3, both doom's, spyro and crash etc is more than nintendo could ever ask for in the Iwata era. No disrespect I loved the man, but relations weren't at their best. Iwata nintendo missed out on a lot even the smaller games. Some games even come out first on switch like the panzer dragoon remake and grandia 1&2. It's the kind of stuff that makes switch great.
