Will Nintendo have a Summer Sale?

[HamPster PamPster]

Summer sales! The only good part of this bug infested, hummidity filled, sorry excuse for a season
Xbox Live is having a summer sale
PSN is having a summer sale
Amazon is having a summer sale
Green Man Gaming and Good Old Games have sales. Steam and Origin will have some soon. There are probably a few more out there I forgot

So where is Nintendo is all this? Sure publishers can set their own price but without the platform holder or store pushing an organized effort these individual sales get very little attention.

So, do you think Nintendo will host one? Should they host one?

 

[AOC83]

What exactly are they going to sell?

 

[Fox318]

Does Nintendo even know what a sale is?

 

[Hoodbury]

What exactly are they going to sell?

They're launch games sure would be nice at around the $20 mark.

 

[Mariolee]

Have they ever had a summer sale?

 

[Takamura-San]

They need games for that to happen.

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Nintendo? Sale?

...

Nintendo?

 

[Zombie James]

Didn't Nintendo/Iwata/Reggie (one of those) brag at one point about not dropping game prices?

 

[Iorv3th]

Please understand!

 

[Forkball]

Iwata: *laughs*

The Nintendo sales haven't been very good. I mean they took like a dollar off of a $7.99 game and called it a sale. Though right now Devil Summoner is $30 opposed to $40, that's something I guess.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

What exactly are they going to sell?

They need games for that to happen.

omg so funny.
would laugh again
11/10


DO you guys even know that the 3DS exists, or have you been under a rock for the past 2 years?

 

[Hattori]

Does Nintendo even know what a sale is?

If this is a serious question, then yes they do have sales from time to time.

 

[Burai]

You'll have your copy of Kirby for 30 cents and you'll like it.

 

[Sendou]

Well 3rd parties get to decide when to have sales on Wii U at least so there's that. I wonder if Nintendo would host some collective effort. Maybe.

 

[Stumpokapow]

the wii u eshop has had some decent sales given that there's no content, but also given that there's no content, they're not going to be able to make a spectacular amazing mindblowing sale.

 

[Kyou]

You'll have your copy of Kirby for 30 cents and you'll like it.

I do like it

 

[Herb Alpert]

What exactly are they going to sell?

They need games for that to happen.

expected. #nintendohasnogamezlol

 

[jred250]

Does Nintendo even know what a sale is?

I would totally buy some 3DS DD games for ~20.

 

[Takamura-San]

Didn't we had a thread a long time ago about NSB from the DS was still full priced?

Nintendo has been conditioned that people will buy their games full priced years after they are released. They don't feel they need sales to move game units.

 

[Gannd]

The eShop has sales all the time. Publishers/developers control their own pricing.

 

[Oersted]

Their sales tend to be more specific. Ideame? Pricedrop of indietitles. New game announced? Pricedrop for the predecessors.

Didn't Nintendo/Iwata/Reggie (one of those) brag at one point about not dropping game prices?

That their retail-games don´t tend to drop value-wise. Not the worst thing to happen.

 

[Tekkie]

Would be nice on 3DS where they have done it before, though I've only seen very small price cuts on there as of yet.

 

[batman2million]

Sad to know that they do the least price cuts but tend to sell the most software.

 

[Rapscallion]

They've been doing the 30cent games on the eshop...That's something.

I'd complain, but I got Super Metroid for 30 cents. Best 30 cents I've spent all year.

 

[JDSN]

\Well, NintendoLand is $20, so yay?

 

[Tizoc]

I just want a sale on 3DS eShop stuff...

 

[SporeCrawler]

They have done a so many games promo in europe.
They are doing a 10% off promo in japan for pikmin, w101 and lego.

 

[-Setsuna-]

There's a Summer Campaign in Japan (concerning TW101, Lego City and Pikmin 3) : http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/summer_campaign/index.html

 

[Garou]

Japanese eShop has sales all the time:
-Get coupon-code for charging WiiU-shop account
-All Level5 games 50% off on 3DS
-Virtual console 30¥ campaign
-Denpaningen 1 & 2 50% off
-Summer-releases on WiiU 10% off
-rebate when buying both Oracle & Ages Zelda

Plus the WiiU-stuff adds up to the Premium-Set bonus-program, plus Club Nintendo stars

 

[DidntKnowJack]

A quick aside, I hate that my birthday is always smack dab in the middle of the dry season. No new video games for me. Yay?

 

[bumpkin]

There's a Summer Campaign in Japan (concerning TW101, Lego City and Pikmin 3) : http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wiiu/summer_campaign/index.html

We need that here (in the US). I'm not sure what they'd substitute for Pikmin and W101, but LEGO City would be a sweet game to nab on sale.

 

[enzo_gt]

If this means we will get the same idea Nintendo has had of what a sale is in the past for 3DS, no thanks. You can keep your "sales" Nintendo.

 

[Gannd]

Nintendo? Sale?

...

Nintendo?

Do you own a Wii U? They do sales all the time on the eShop.

 

[flyinpiranha]

Nintendo? Sale?

...

Nintendo?

Haha, this was exactly what went through my mind.

 

[WrenchNinja]

Do you own a Wii U? They do sales all the time on the eShop.

Did they ever drop the price on their retail titles that are on the eshop?

 

[drspeedy]

 

[Gannd]

Did they ever drop the price on their retail titles that are on the eshop?

yes. they have. it's not up to Nintendo to control the pricing on the eShop. It's up to the publisher. AC3 is now $30 but Zombi U is still $60. They do sales all the time, it's just not a lot of content to do sales with.

 

[imBask]

Nintendo and Sales in the same sentence, lol

 

[WrenchNinja]

yes.

What games and what were the prices?

 

[Sendou]

Did they ever drop the price on their retail titles that are on the eshop?

Nintendo hasn't but at least Ubisoft has done so with their titles.

It's up to each publisher whether to do it and using what schedule.

 

[The Boat]

There have been sales on a regular basis on both eShops, they will probably continue.

 

[WrenchNinja]

yes. they have. it's not up to Nintendo to control the pricing on the eShop. It's up to the publisher. AC3 is now $30 but Zombi U is still $60. They do sales all the time, it's just not a lot of content to do sales with.

So Nintendo hasnt had sales for their own retail titles then, huh.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

What exactly are they going to sell?

All their games on their eShops? Come on.

And it's clear who hasn't been paying attention. Nintendo has had sales before on the 3DS eShop and quite a few deals recently on the Wii U eShop.

 

[Krappadizzle]

8/10. Lol

 

[espher]

I'm sure if Nintendo was about to drop a next gen console w/o backwards compat they'd be having great sales trying to make whatever cash they can off the old stuff.

Or if they were a PC digital distribution outlet.

 

[Gannd]

So Nintendo hasnt had sales for their own retail titles then, huh.

Nintendo's titles are the only ones that count?

 

[WrenchNinja]

Nintendo's titles are the only ones that count?

Well I was asking about Nintendo titles and you start talking about Ubisoft.

 

[RM8]

A 3DS VC sale would be pretty nice, actually.

 

[Gannd]

Well I was asking about Nintendo titles and you start talking about Ubisoft.

Nintendo has sales on their eShop platform. That is the topic of the post. It isn't "why does'nt Nintendo drop the prices on their first party games"

There are what, 3 first party games that have been released?

 

[Akey]

Well new 3DS games have been coming out at 34.99 price point instead of 39.99....thats something.