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Nintendo Dropping Prices of 5 3DS Games (no, really)

Velinos said:
Kid Icarus is on clearance at Toys R Us? Hopefully my local store has copies left when I go there tonight.
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Yup. Make them scan it. My store had no indication it was on clearance, but I got the heads up from CAG, so I asked them to ring it up and it was about $22 with tax.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
19.99 is the magic number.
Amazon has SMT: Soul Hackers for that price.
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Yep. Dat Nintendo DS games launch price!

Still, good on Nintendo for realizing that a flexible price point can increase sales and revenue. Hopefully this isn't a one-time experiment - I can imagine Nintendo execs saying, "See, we dropped prices on games and didn't see a significant increase in sales, so back to ever-green ever launch price!" (Admittedly, that's a lot of old behavior informing that opinion, while new Nintendo is looking better - but still).
 
greg400 said:
It doesn't make any business sense when you're dropping the price of your best selling games while keeping your worse selling games at a higher price.
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They have a large supply of games with stagnant/decreasing demand. It makes perfect sense.

It's not like they produced the same amount of units of Fire Emblem as 3D Land.
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
They have a large supply of games with stagnant/decreasing demand. It makes perfect sense.
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If they wanted it to make any sense they should've either

A) lowered prices across the board
or
B) lowered the price of the software that was selling worse

All this current strategy will do is encourage Nintendo to release safer software because their other software will be selling even worse.
 
ngower said:
Yup. Make them scan it. My store had no indication it was on clearance, but I got the heads up from CAG, so I asked them to ring it up and it was about $22 with tax.
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Any idea if any other games have a similar deal going on? Would this be why Star Fox 64 3D is $15?

Dr. Black Jack said:
It's a part of their tag sale, which is instore only. Instore it will ring up with the 50% off.
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Hopefully my local stores have it in stock then :D
 
greg400 said:
If they wanted it to make any sense they should've either

A) lowered prices across the board
or
B) lowered the price of the software that was selling worse

All this current strategy will do is encourage Nintendo to release safer software because their other software will be selling even worse.
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If the prices were cut across the board, the sales would remain proportional.

If the prices were lowered on worse selling software, that would simply be clearing out inventory and wouldn't encourage "riskier" titles.
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
If the prices were cut across the board, the sales would remain proportional.

If the prices were lowered on worse selling software, that would simply be clearing out inventory and wouldn't encourage "riskier" titles.
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I'm sorry but arguing that lowering prices across the board wouldn't be more beneficial than this is ridiculous.

All this will do is halt sales even further on software that was selling worse to begin with. They could've had a greater impact by increasing sales on all of their software.

And lowering the price on worse selling software does not instantly mean "clearing out". There's a reason why The Wonderful 101 is $30 and Mario 3D World is $60, it's because the consumer has classified these as being of different value. How is that value determined? Sales.
 
greg400 said:
I'm sorry but arguing that lowering prices across the board wouldn't be more beneficial than this is ridiculous.

All this will do is halt sales even further on software that was selling worse to begin with. They could've had a greater impact by increasing sales on all of their software.

And lowering the price on worse selling software does not instantly mean "clearing out". There's a reason why The Wonderful 101 is $30 and Mario 3D World is $60, it's because the consumer has classified these as being of different value. How is that value determined? Sales.
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I didn't say it wouldn't be beneficial to sales numbers, just that it wouldn't change anything as far as Nintendo taking more risks.

And yes, sales determines value. Sales are slowing on those 4 titles, they have a shit ton of them, so they lowered the price.
 
Nice. Nintendo games always take so long to go down in price, even on the resell market.
 
All 3DS (and their next handheld) new releases should be $29.99 tops with a budget selection of $19.99 games once they have been out for two years and $9.99 games once they have been out for four years.

They need to realise they are competing with millions of free to play / 99c games on mobile nowadays.
 
$30 still feels a bit too much, it shows how overpriced these handheld games were when they released. Would bite for 15-20 maybe.
 
I was so close to impulse buying animal crossing a few weeks ago. 29.99 is perfect I thought. When I loaded it up I saw it was 34.99.

Nuts to that.

Now I guess I have to get it.
 
Man God said:
Also Kid Icarus got a price drop baked into its digital debut last fall.
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Nintendo could justify this one to themselves due to getting no stand or AR cards with the digital download. Speaking of which you can these for $5 (America and Canada) or €5 (Germany...Germans seem to get 18 AR cards instead of 6 though) which ends up making them the same price as the retail version.

I just noticed the stand is not stated as being compatible with the 2DS...
 
The Animal Crossing drop is a big surprise, that's still a relatively new game and doesn't need a price drop to sell insane numbers. Fire Emblem next please, I missed that $15 Best Buy deal.
 
Realised I've got most of these:

MK 7 - bundled with 3DS
SM3DL- free after registering 3DS (UK/EU promotion)
AC: NL - ÂŁ8 when Nintendo UK had a price fuck up
DKCR 3D - ÂŁ8 for the same reason

NSMB 2 is the only one I need to grab, no rush though.
 
I just checked my local Toys r Us and Star Fox wasn't on clearance. Damn.

Will try a second one, see if it's on clearance there.

Update: Didn't have any stock, so :( At least they said that some games were on sale. None that I wanted, though. KI:U is indeed on sale, and it's the boxed version with the extras.
 
BinaryPork2737 said:
Any idea if any other games have a similar deal going on? Would this be why Star Fox 64 3D is $15?



Hopefully my local stores have it in stock then :D
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There's a really big thread on CAG with lists of what people are finding. Some stars are marking their clearance items, others (like mine) are not, but they'll all ring up as clearance. Probably worth starting from the back and working your way towards the beginning as some of the percentages-off have increased since the thread was started.
 
I own all of these games, and I only own like 15 3DS title total. Unfortunate for me I guess.

However, $29.99 is still pretty high for a discounted handheld title. A discounted handheld title i would put at $19.99 and a discount console game should be $29.99. $29.99 is only about $5 off some of the original MSRP's of those 3DS titles.
 
Hopefully Nintendo of Europe follows suit. They'll probably be slashed down to ÂŁ30 though which is terrible, they should be ÂŁ20 ($33). If only the 3DS was region free...
 
a good and surprising step. I'd grab NSMB2 for $5 lower :p

also this is the price I grabbed mk7 a while ago. now I kinda wish I had waited for digital convenience

animal crossing is the best game on the system and the value here for 30 bucks is amazing
 
Vibranium said:
Hopefully this comes to Canada. Then I can look around and see if I can find DKR3D for even cheaper. :P
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These games were already $15 last Christmas time. Games that weren't on sale, I bought from EB used for same price, and I always get unused club nintendo codes with them, so it's just as buying new.
 
Are Star Fox and Kid Icarus becoming hard to find? I can't find a single place locally that has either in stock, except for some used SF at Gamestop. Should I try to grab these soon?
 
ElectricBlanketFire said:
I didn't say it wouldn't be beneficial to sales numbers, just that it wouldn't change anything as far as Nintendo taking more risks.

And yes, sales determines value. Sales are slowing on those 4 titles, they have a shit ton of them, so they lowered the price.
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If sales are slowing on their system sellers than that should be all the more reason to lower their not so well selling titles also, it's simple economics.
 
If only I didn't already own all 5 games. But it's good for newcomers and those who don't. Nintendo really needs to return to the standard of $30 portable game pricing.
 
At their last investor's meeting, Iwata talked about using the 3DS to carry the company forward this fiscal year. Are sales for these games slowing down that much to cut prices now? I mean, why do it if it doesn't need to be done, especially when they are pushing 3DS? Low prices are great, no one is complaining about prices getting lower, but I can't help but shake a weird feeling about this. Can't say it makes me worried, but there's something about it I can't quite put my finger on.
 
bobawesome said:
Only $30?
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I was excited for a second.
 
watershed said:
If only I didn't already own all 5 games. But it's good for newcomers and those who don't. Nintendo really needs to return to the standard of $30 portable game pricing.
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This.

$39.99 (and up) is ridiculous for handheld titles. $29.99 should be the top end for portable games. I suppose a $5 premium option for retail third-party titles is acceptable - at least then things would be more like the GBA days.
 
Already own the only game I'd buy from this but I guess a physical version of New Leaf would be cool now that my internet doesn't suck and I can go into peoples towns.
 
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