mad bum wrote: ↑Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:39 am
It's already been speculated that nintendo purposely puts out short supply so you have that mentality of "I have to buy this". Shit if anything those amibo's prove this. So generally the flow is the scalpers buy everything, nintendo makes money, consumer gets fucked but cucks the extra $200 for their shitty emulator.
Nintendo still ends up winning while they let the plebs fight it out.
In the long run this is a dumb idea since no one will buy games for their system if they are all fucking expensive. I would have bought Pokken Tournament and Smash 4 already for the WiiU if they were at a decent price, but that shit still costs a stupid amount of money despite the WiiU being a dead console.
Let's compare to the PS4 I recently bought (literally a month ago). I own 7 games for it, and on average the games were $30 each in aussie retail prices. I own 9 WiiU games and I have owned that system for years, and 2 of those games (Mario Kart 8, and Wonderful 101 as a download) came with the system. Only two of the games I got cost me under 50 bucks (one was that line drawing Kirby game that was already a budget title), I'd say the average price I paid for each game was about double that of the PS4. If I didn't have a decent PC to play most 3rd party games I could have got way more for a decent price.
With Nintendo I can't do that, and with shit like Steam sales (which have gotten worse lately) and other cheap alternatives to play games these days, why the fuck do I have to buy games like it's 2007? When I look back at how much I used to spend on games and entertainment in general I am bloody shocked. Entertainment is cheap as fuck if you look hard enough, and the only company that doesn't realise this is Nintendo.