Quote Originally Posted by theclaw View Post
Who says Nintendo's "allowing" it in that sense? There's not much they could do about it without killing PR among gamers or the possibility of getting in trouble for anti-competitive practices. Except when it's through sales channels owned/operated by Nintendo.

As far as I'm concerned once a third-party retailer has purchased inventory of a game, the decision to offer discounts should be theirs alone and at their own risk.
They used to proactively stop retailers from doing any discounting of their titles by refusing to grant guaranteed allocations of in-demand titles and they would withhold promotional money, displays. etc...That doesn't appear to be the case anymore from what I've heard and there have even been certain titles where they have provided financial support to retailers like Kmart and Amazon to provide coupons or gift certificates towards future game purchases. Again, I agree that their core titles are held to MSRP for long periods of time, but the days of Nintendo actively stopping retailers from lowering sales prices at retail are long gone.