Topic: Nintendo may charge for online?

[Mop it up]

Why do they care about used games? Who knows.

[TJ Spyke]

Because someone buying a used copy can buy DLC (I know several people who buy used games and have paid for DLC), someone who skips the game entirely due to this moronic practice means there is zero chance of the publisher getting money from them.

[Guitar Smasher]

^ which makes you more likely to buy the new version.

Look BNM I understand your point - EA wants to make more money, so stop acting like it's going over our heads.  What I object to is the fact that consumers are losing value.  But hey, if it's all about profits let's go back to the days of Nintendo's monopoly and let's make it all direct distribution with one-time dls only...  and let's make our consoles breakdown after a year so consumers have to buy new.

[Louieturkey]

Does this mean that EA should never, ever, ever cut the price on new copies of their games because it will make the used copies worth less to those who want to resell them?

It's what Nintendo does.  They never lower the price of their games.  Super Mario 64 DS is still $29.99 srp and still is a top seller for them every year.  If EA could get their games to do the same thing, they'd never lower their prices either.

[Louieturkey]

Because someone buying a used copy can buy DLC (I know several people who buy used games and have paid for DLC), someone who skips the game entirely due to this moronic practice means there is zero chance of the publisher getting money from them.

Now this is definitely a logical deterrent to doing this practice.  But since I'm guessing most people who buy used games are less likely to buy dlc for said game, they decided this was an acceptable loss.

[Chozo Ghost]

Does this mean that EA should never, ever, ever cut the price on new copies of their games because it will make the used copies worth less to those who want to resell them?

It's what Nintendo does.  They never lower the price of their games.  Super Mario 64 DS is still $29.99 srp and still is a top seller for them every year.  If EA could get their games to do the same thing, they'd never lower their prices either.

Well, $29.99 is $5 less than what it was back when it was first released back in November 2004. That's almost 6 years ago though, so it should have fallen a lot more than that but at least it fell somewhat.

[Louieturkey]

Does this mean that EA should never, ever, ever cut the price on new copies of their games because it will make the used copies worth less to those who want to resell them?

It's what Nintendo does.  They never lower the price of their games.  Super Mario 64 DS is still $29.99 srp and still is a top seller for them every year.  If EA could get their games to do the same thing, they'd never lower their prices either.

Well, $29.99 is $5 less than what it was back when it was first released back in November 2004. That's almost 6 years ago though, so it should have fallen a lot more than that but at least it fell somewhat.

Well, Mario Kart DS has kept its same price. How long ago did it release?  Of course it's still getting into the top 10 monthly console charts so it's an anomaly in itself.

There's only been a couple of 1st party Wii games that have dropped at all though.

[Mop it up]

Which Nintendo-published Wii games have had official price cuts? I've found plenty on retail specials before but I don't recall hearing about any permanent price reductions.

[Chozo Ghost]

Nintendo may never cut the price of their games, but the price does go down in terms of buying them used. That's something Nintendo has no real control over, and the price will drop because as time passes people will get bored of their games (be they A++ titles or not) and will sell them or trade them so the price does drop in that sense.

[Chozo Ghost]

Which Nintendo-published Wii games have had official price cuts?

Captain Rainbow? *shrug*

[TJ Spyke]

Chozo, where have you seen used prices of Nintendo games dropping? Used copies of Super Mario Galaxy are still about $45, same with other games.

Anyways, the only Wii games from Nintendo that I have really seen drop in price are ones that bombed in sales, like Excitebots: Trick Racing.

[Chozo Ghost]

SMG's value will plummet considerably after SMG2 comes out, I predict.