Is Nintendo the only company that does this in the video game world? I seem to be able to find almost any game for other current systems even the PS3 without much trouble. I am only talking about normal copies not collector's editions.
Is Nintendo the only company that does this in the video game world? I seem to be able to find almost any game for other current systems even the PS3 without much trouble. I am only talking about normal copies not collector's editions.
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In case you guys haven't noticed, Nintendo has never put a Wii U game under the Nintendo Selects label (formerly Player's Choice). I think there's one or two old 3DS games in red re-release cases, but none of the newer games have. I think it's very clear what is happening, Nintendo has replaced reprints and budget labels with digital eShop downloads.
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...which they never lower the price of. Great.Originally Posted by Guntz
Yeah, it's a great business model in theory. I only hope that eShop sales are so slow they force Nintendo to either lower the prices or send out Nintendo Selects re-releases.
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Leo I had a few stores mention they've had it, but it's stuff I'm betting thrown into a larger box of just a few here, few there type things and people just can snap it up first. I don't put much value playing hookie from work to make calls at 9 or 10am to beg every day if something came in to hold it so I can drive over and get it. Either way I ended up bagging a copy of it, a video game collector cashed out at a Gamestop in Frankfort and we had to drive out there anyway today so I went and snapped it up. My b'day is around a week out so my wife got me it as a gift and the copy is immaculate, and as a bonus, the dude 100% finished the game and unlocked master quest. I moved his save over to slot 3 and started my own.I don't the heart to erase something that nice, plus like me the dude seems to name his characters after the character (it has Link, I've always done that as I don't like seeing some named character with mine on it.)
Jonebone you're probably right more or less, but still that rumor from PlayAsia for sure didn't help things either. I pity anyone paying $70-80 for it complete and used.
kai: The game came out mid 2011 if I remember right, but it was (and supposedly in some fashion) is still distributed today so says NOA on the phone. But Nintendo did change gears on the 3DS vs the DS. On DS they mass printed games, some to a fault they couldn't even clear then out at like $5-10 at the end (True Swing Golf and Elite Beat Agents) no matter how good they may have been. This time with a real network finally they decided to limit the runs they do on physical games to feature digital as the primary way to get it, even where they will get added coin points on the Club of theirs or giving discounts or other freebie incentives over physical. I really hate it, but I can't blame them as a download on a server is cheaper than a copy in my hand.
Guntz is correct, they don't do full blown reprints but rarely on the 3DS and DS too, and they had red cases (for the Mario games.) There was New Super Mario Bros, Mario Kart DS, Mario Party, Mario vs DK, Mario & Luigi, and Super Mario 64 DS. The 3DS though I know of two -- Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land. Picture here: http://i.imgur.com/vwowFKQ.jpg What also stings is that even when they reprint these games (either system) they don't lower the price like they did in the past with Player's Choice/Select games.
I believe Mario Power Tennis is the last disc-based game Nintendo reduced to $20. Pikmin 2 debuted as Nintendo Selects.
Wii Mini was humorous to see. It included $50 Mario Kart Wii, $40 Wii Remote Plus, and $20 Nunchuk.
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Yeah you've got a point there, it seems only Mario games ever get the red cases I think. Since they're not price reduced, I'm not sure whether red cased DS/3DS games are budget re-releases or additional standard print runs. Has there ever been Player's Choice for DS? I'm thinking no.
Basically the future is looking very grim here. Nintendo seems to be banking on eShop sales for the longterm, leaving physical copies a special one-time print run kind of thing. Now there's even more incentive to buy Nintendo games at regular MSRP before you have to brave the used market prices, which going by Ocarina of Time 3D and Pikmin 3 isn't looking good. Seems like a genius plan on Nintendo's part, sucks for us gamers though.
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You still don't get what I'm saying. If this in-demand 3DS game is reprinted, it's again going to be available for $39.99 at retailers once more stock arrives. Why do you think, for instance, that it won't ever be sold directly from Amazon again, for example?
You're so sure it's not out of print, yet in the same breath, you're upset that it will forever into the future be all but impossible to find a brand new copy at MSRP.
Those two things don't go together. How you expect distribution to circumvent all the mainstream retailers of North America that deal in 3DS software while pricing it at MSRP, and jump immediately to the reseller? It's going to either be one or the other. It will either only become tougher to find since this really was it, or the next shipment to retailers will squash this rush in no time and everything will normalize as it once again pops up as available everywhere at MSRP once again.
Last edited by Leo_A; 03-03-2015 at 06:24 AM.
Nonetheless 3DS games have received price drops their DS direct predecessors didn't. Nintendo lowered Mario Kart 7 to $30, unlike Mario Kart DS
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Problem is that with at least one of these price drops in recent years, Super Mario Galaxy 2, they didn't even reprint it at the same time and it was already out of stock at most retailers when it happened (Same time that the white case variant of NSMBWii appeared when that one also saw its price dropped to $29.99).
Still wondering what the point of that one was. Only Nintendo would publicize a price drop on a game that was already out of stock at mainstream retailers, which they weren't restocking.
Last edited by Leo_A; 03-03-2015 at 06:27 AM.
Uhh you're misreading me. I never said Nintendo would sell it higher or retail for that matter. I'm saying the jackasses who pulled this current stunt would try and maintain their profits by picking off stuff as it goes up for sale so they can sell it at a profit. If a bunch came to amazon or whatever at $40, many of those same clowns who grabbed up the current stock would make a pass for those too, and at local joints individuals would see a profit margin too. If you can grab the game or two that arrives here and there for $40, toss it sealed/new on ebay for $80+ and easily sell that to double your dough, you damn well know they'll do it. Who wouldn't?
I see it as a mirror of the current Amiibo situation. Have you watched how that has eroded into madness and pissed off people just giving in and overpaying? Gold mario Walmart Amiibo $13 -- ebay $80~. Shulk from Gamestop $13 -- ebay $40 or so. ...same with Toys R Us with Lucario and Target with Rosalina. Then of course you have people selectively picking off certain figures who are actively sold like Little Mac, Captain Falcon, Pit, and the Fire Emblem peeps and selling those at like 2-4x retail. All commercially avaiable(other than the gold mario pre-sells) but hard as nails to come by unless you stand at the store the day they happen to luckily come in and grab it, or you sit there refreshing the crap out of their website and clicking to pay fast if it shows as up for sale and not out of stock. The Gold Mario when Walmart opens it up has lasted usually between like 1-15minutes and it's gone, gone right to ebay as a pre-sell. That's what I'm getting at, people are assholes, even when stock is being pumped out. Clearly people are consciously actively indirectly colluding with each other, but it's the herd mentality to fleece those who can't get there first repeatedly.
So the moral of the story is I should forget about getting a 3DS or WiiU unless I want to either pay scalpers for the privilege or else pirate everything to save my sanity? That's real nice. What the hell kind of choice is that?
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The choice of a flip of a coin, a coin made out of a shiny polished turd so no matter what comes up, you get shit.
Seriously though, the idea is that if you want a Nintendo something, and in particular a Wii U and an amiibo even more than the 3DS (it's select few games for this one so far) if you don't buy the stuff right away, and if it's branded "limited" "collectors" or "X store exclusive" you pre buy it or you'll have to get lucky or take it in the ass by a scalper. If it's a game and non-limited, just get it within the first year of being around I'd think before they run out because Nintendo would rather sell a full price download as it makes more money for them.
Basically all the abuse of the NES that creeped forward shortly into the SNES, then the N64 and GC kept moving up the line until it caught up with the current generation. So if you want Nintendo, watch out, be prepared, or get screwed (or don't bother at all.) You don't see this really with Sony or MS stuff, just Nintendo of the three.
I found an update about the Amiibo though. Supposedly they were done by a third party vendor who couldn't keep up. Nintendo and retailers are fed up with the shortages so Nintendo supposedly is taking over making them so they'll come out in mass sooner or later and put an end hopefully to much of this crap.
While I respect your opinion, I don't see how this stunt will work for long if it's not out of print. Much more than just a single chain of retailers that's receiving very limited stock will soon be getting Ocarina of Time 3D back in, if your contact was right about its status.
Ebay scalpers can't permanently raise the MSRP of a game that's remaining in print, lol.
Last edited by Leo_A; 03-04-2015 at 03:26 AM.
Because it's in lower print from the look of it, not out of print. It's widely available, but not widely in quantity in each store. It's not hard to pull it when you get a game or two in a box here and there, not stacks of them. They can't permanently raise it, but they can manipulate it. Gamestop like it or not is a key player in price, and as long as they're asking $50 or more for the game used, that'll keep the drive on the price of the game up so buying a new one if you can find it for $40 means you already came out ahead.
These OOT out of print worries have been around for over a year. It's just an older game that not all retailers are worried about keeping in stock.
I even had trouble finding it back over two+ years ago. Most of the games I wanted I could find cheaply, even then fairly new games like NSMB2 and Sticker Star, yet OOT I couldn't find anywhere but Walmart, where it was full price.
You just have to look around and be patient. It's still out there, somewhere.
Read an older thread at AtariAge about the short lived Nintendo Selects program, and it reminded me that this is nothing new here.
They were doing this years ago when there wasn't a digital option. So I don't believe that a title such as Ocarina of Time 3D going out of print is merely an attempt to push digital distribution of older software.
Thankfully most titles remain reasonable and easily can be found new at fair prices.
That the occasional 1st party release is starting to become scarce and climb in price is nothing new for 2000's Nintendo. So don't let the odd title or two discourage you from these two game systems.
There's no evidence of the title returning to stock, however briefly.
Last edited by Leo_A; 03-10-2015 at 12:09 PM.
In 2012 Nintendo was getting bashed for rehashes, and now they're all the rage! lol. Glad I bought this game in 2011 before it was cool to buy a rehash.
[quote name='Shidou Mariya' date='Nov 17 2010, 10:05 PM' post='4889940']
I'm a collector, but only to a certain extent.
Not as extreme as Rickstilwell though.[/quote]
That is true. I wonder why the sudden change of heart from people? Have the nostalgia boners started to take viagra?
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I think it's a mix of a lot of things combining into one.
You have the re-interest in the Zelda franchise because they've early blown out their annoyingly open world Zelda game coming on WiiU. You have the MM game and the New3DS launch branded system as well. And then there's the fact while in production, it's not in mass production, a 4 year old upgrade of the one video game on the market that supposedly is the highest rated game of all time, Ocarina of Time. You have this trifecta of garbage colliding to cause this one to go nuts.
If you then factor in the whole market where people are holding onto their last gen systems over buying new still (with no help from game/system makers to force the ugprade like every other generation) and all the indie and so on style stuff these days looking backward instead of forward for many of reasons it plays into why rehash does well. If you get a rehashed game you may have already played it, but if not, you can look into years of commentary and review to know honestly if it's crap or not, modern games cover the bs with smoke and mirrors and you're left playing vegas tables with your games and money.
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