lack of competition is a flawed argument cause we have 1st hand evidence that most people that own a Switch (at least in USA) also, own another console (or PC)
That certainly is an interesting fact, but it's not proof at all. It's just proving that 70% of Switch owners also play on another console. That doesn't change the fact that when these 70% of Switch owners decide to buy a game on the Switch they have mainly Nintendo games to choose from (when talking about AAA games).
I mean yes, that how this work, if people keep buying at full price, the prices wont drop.
I dont think people decide to buy a game "on the switch". People just decide to buy a game so, they do compete against other games.
When people are choosing to buy a game, they're not looking to solely buy a game for just one system, at least most aren't. They're looking at all the available options they have on whatever systems they own and pick and choose what they prefer or want to play
I don't think that's a fact. I don't think there are more big Nintendo titles on the Switch than there are 3rd party
BOTW staying $60 is fine.
That certainly could be the case, it's a fair argument. The question then is how many of the games Nintendo sells are bought by the 70% of people that also play on other consoles vs. the other 30% (those percentages are from the US market, not sure about the rest of the world) :-)
There's already a bit of grease by way of some recent-ish games with large discounts, like Sushi Strikers.
Asking for more than eight of their games to go on sale for a bit more than once per year is not demanding a race to the bottom.
You can ask, they don't have to answer. They have some set times in the year when they have sales (like near E3).
I think this thread has reached peak of how fundamentally wrong people can be.
Or I can be critical of them not wanting to support their older games that don't sell anymore and could use the good vibes, better word of mouth, and increased interest/sales that they would bring. Their total lack of DLC sales and this whole thing where they price bundles with no discount for getting both at once that are just their to force people to buy it up or shut up. I don't intend to shut up about it. There's no reason to paint criticism as being counter to anti-crunch desires and demanding a race to the bottom when they barely do anything to begin with.
Wow. That's some passion. What's wrong with that sentence? People are used to saying "I'll wait until it falls to $20" on most video games, but when you know how pricing on Nintendo games work, you simply don't have that expectation. Nintendo has created this expectation very carefully, so people aren't waiting for sales.
People are enjoying sales on Nintendo games a lot. Just step outside of reset or gamefaqs and there is a larger world of people saving a decent amount of money in not paying full price for Nintendo games.
Retailers might rarely do their own price drops to clear out stock (a problem they rarely have), but Nintendo themselves does not slash price on games unless it is a literal Player's Choice-style discounted copy or a special Black Friday sale where they knock off $20. That is the difference.
Notice how we're starting to say the same thing? Nintendo controls the prices, keeps them high aside from tiny 20% off special occasion sale (ie Black Friday) and true retailer clearouts of their product are incredibly rare (ie Animal Crossing Amiibo)
No we are saying very different things.
