Saying that they play the long game whole western devs play the quarterly game.Īnd it doesn't change the fact that these game are being removed when there's no reason to remove them. That's why Nintendo, and pretty much only Nintendo, can sell you almost straight ports of Wii U, Wii, GC, and even N64 games for £50, where every body else sells their remasters for a lower price. Which then promotes further sales, even after the sale price has ended.Īnd Nintendo keeping their game prices high actually over inflates their perceived worth.

That means that the best way to promote your game and be seen is to drop those prices to be included in the most played sections. The reason you see sale wars on eShop is because Nintendo are just god awful at curation on the store. The problems you highlighted of exposure and product value are nearly exclusively a Nintendo problem. Like having all the RE games on Switch be £50-&60 each. You can't really argue that game prices shouldn't drop, unless you are also going to argue that every game should maintain its original launch price. And once initial sales have been made, and the sales drop, they drop the price to boost sales and maintain revenue again. And normally games are priced to maximise sales, not keep a product's value high.

It doesn't matter if you sell 100k copies at £50 or 1m at £5. A dev isn't concerned about their product being cheap, they are concerned about turning a profit. The reason most games get price drops is continued revenue.

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