Quote Originally Posted by kupomogli View Post
Regardless how you want to spin it, MSRP for Nintendo games, aside from those four that made it to the budget line up, never reduce in price. This is fact.

Yes. Amazon is running a video game deal of the day for Metroid the Other M for $20. What happens when you miss the 24 hour sale? It's no longer on sale? You can find any game on sale if you wait long enough(I got Tactics Ogre PSP on sale a month after it was released, Yakuza 4 was released at $39.99 at Best Buy, etc.) Doesn't mean the MSRP isn't still higher and the fact that MSRP is just what it says "suggested retail price." Undercutting your competition usually means more business. Walmart used to do it, and now that they have everyone thinking that they're lowest priced, they jack the prices up to higher than what you'll find in most locations(that and Sam Walton is dead.)
But the question posed by the OP was which current gen games will retain their value. Obviously, if you pay $50 for a game, it has to be worth more than $50 a few years from now just to keep up with inflation. Very few games in previous generations have ever maintained their value and as several of us have pointed out, regardless of Nintendo's previous stance on maintaining MSRP, it doesn't change the fact that on Amazon and at retail, most Wii games have been on sale over the past few years. Metroid Other M has repeatedly been on sale at Amazon, including during launch week. It has also been on sale at Best Buy repeatedly. MSRP may not be falling, but almost any Wii game can be found for well below MSRP easily.