Seems Like Wii U Games WIll Be Cheaper Than Expected

30 responses to “Seems Like Wii U Games WIll Be Cheaper Than Expected”

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   ash

   October 3, 2012 at 2:23 pm

   $109.95 is nuts IMO… that said I remember paying that much for a MegaCD game many moons ago 😛

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      bob

      October 3, 2012 at 2:26 pm

      That must mean… you’re nuts too!

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         travisnew87

         October 3, 2012 at 2:30 pm

         That price is more reflective of the CoD franchise. They wait forever to reduce their prices and even when they do it’s minimal. With it being a new release they will gouge anyone they can.

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            tisme

            October 3, 2012 at 6:36 pm

            Yep. Been waiting for proper deals in steam and they never happen. Its always rubbish like over inflated prices discounted a few percent leaving a still over inflated sale price. They obviously do not want to sell units as only die hard cod fans would even consider paying the sale prices and you would be mad to pay full price . BF3 is usually cheaper and it is a world ahead of cod in all aspects unless your computer is a plank of wood. Cods advantage is its poor graphics allowing it to run on planks of wood making its pricing even more unjustifiable.

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   2. 

      braaains

      October 3, 2012 at 2:30 pm

      I seem to recall Street Fighter 2 on the SNES costing something ridiculous like $140-150? And that was in early 1990’s money. And we all sit around today complaining about $100 games…

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         bob

         October 3, 2012 at 2:41 pm

         To be fair, Super Street Fighter 2/Turbo was a big cartridge megabit-wise, and it used to cost heaps to manufacture the bigger cartridges. I remember paying hundreds for 4 megabytes of memory in the early ’90s.

         These days it costs no more to manufacture a 200MB game than a 5GB game. You are paying for saturation marketing and extra shareholder profits.

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         Tyler

         October 3, 2012 at 3:31 pm

         Agreed, Street Fighter was indeed expensive. As was Conkers Bad Fur Day for N64, retailing at $149.95 in AUS.

         All of these examples, however, are better than the bi-centennial release of Call of Duty though

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         Ricardo

         October 4, 2012 at 9:55 pm

         Absolutely correct, I paid $150 for brand new Street Fighter II Turbo for SNES at an HMV store in Sydney back in the early 90s.

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2. 

   stevorooni

   October 3, 2012 at 2:30 pm

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   1. 

      ShadowKnight1505

      October 3, 2012 at 7:56 pm

      Wii U is region locked though

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         diaglyph

         October 5, 2012 at 12:00 am

         You forget we are under Euro region so we can still import from the UK

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3. 

   negativezero

   October 3, 2012 at 2:49 pm

   Well that’s cool I guess. Still going to be way cheaper to import UK releases for the near future though.

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4. 

   fenixius

   October 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm

   So still a 25% markup on US prices (assuming they’re not changing price from mainline AAA-class release pricing). Better! Definitely better. Could be even better, but this is certainly a good step.

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5. 

   Ben J

   October 3, 2012 at 2:59 pm

   Nintendo seem to be the only ones making progress on game pricing, hopefully other publishers follow! This is great news. Add the fact that stores in Australia always discount and we could end up paying the same price as they do in America.

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6. 

   ace_aviator

   October 3, 2012 at 2:59 pm

   This is about how much I expected Wii U titles to cost. When the PS3/360 came out, $110 felt absolutely ridiculous, especially when considering the near-grand console prices. $79.95 RRP seems a pretty fair price to pay for new games. I also expect that because of Nintendo’s progress on fair pricing, third-party support and innovation, the Wii U will be very successful.

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7. 

   stu

   October 3, 2012 at 3:04 pm

   I’m glad to see a lower price-point on Nintendo games, not just for the obvious fact that I’ll spend less money, but also because it’s a change in pace to what Nintendo traditionally do with their first-party titles. All through the Wii and DS years, first-party Nintendo games stayed at their $99.95 and $69.95 premium RRP’s for five years or more. If you wanted the best games, you had to pay top dollar, apparently. If they’re launching games at $79.95 now, it shows they’re being aggressive with their pricing across the board. Perhaps it’ll be to lesser the blow of the price of a second Gamepad.

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8. 

   Jake

   October 3, 2012 at 3:04 pm

   Not going to stop me from importing :p

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9. 

   Duskblayde

   October 3, 2012 at 3:12 pm

   Are they going to be nice and lower the RRP of 3DS games as well? I mean, a $10 difference between a home console and a portable one seems a little outrageous…

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10. 

    Blue Monkey

    October 3, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    That’s a $20 difference with ozgameshop – it might be enough to make be buy 1 game from the local shop on the release day, and the rest will come from UK. I’d consider buying all of my games locally if they would bring the difference down to $10.

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       billb

       October 3, 2012 at 6:01 pm

       Will be more like $5-$10 difference for intro price.

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    mrtaco

    October 3, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    This is most excellent.

    Though wonder about the 3DS games being only $10 behind them…

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    1. 

       cordigle

       October 3, 2012 at 4:41 pm

       +1 my man

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12. 

    Narayana

    October 3, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    I remember hearing this about Wii titles from toys are us before launch.

    Didn’t happen.

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13. 

    glennv17

    October 3, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    I’ll always be amazed at Nintendo’s pricing for its games.

    Just look at this: http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/nintendo-ds/mario-kart-ds/250165 and this: http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/nintendo-ds/new-super-mario-bros/266515

    They’re great games, but they should not still be selling at the biggest games retailer for $59, when this is selling at $59 too: http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/3ds/new-super-mario-bros-2/668503

    I know they’re available cheaper elsewhere (local stock included) but it’s frustrating.

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    1. 

       ruen

       October 3, 2012 at 10:41 pm

       I was going to bring something like this up. . . It’s all well and good for Nintendo to lower the initial price for their game titles, but will this lead to a scenario where first party Wii U titles are $79.95 at launch. . . and still $79.95 3 years afterwards. . .

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    2. 

       eronin

       October 4, 2012 at 10:23 pm

       I think it’s because of the so-called “long-tail” effect of Nintendo games continuing to sell in bucketloads years after their initial release date. People just keep buying the games at that price so retailers have very little reason to reduce them.

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    mrtaco

    October 3, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    I am almost dead certain Conker’s Bad Fur Day did not retail for $149 here. I distinctly remember (because it’s the most I’ve ever paid for a game) that it cost me $114, back when it was still new and loaded on the shelves.

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    mrtaco

    October 3, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    FRIGGEN DAMMIT THE REPLIES AREN’T REPLYING STILL

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    diaglyph

    October 5, 2012 at 12:01 am

    It’s about bloody time that games got a lower RRP price!
    I think its fantastic that Nintendo are setting the trend.
    It’ll be interesting to see what discounts will become available too.

    I also hope that these new RRP changes will get applied to 3DS and DS games, as I think they are still too expensive and need to be lowered.

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    Qodrat

    October 16, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    Ha, I remember carntieg a thread of the Sega forums saying this stage was confirmed months ago. (Sega had a stream and Tropical Resort had remixed music) Funny to see it finally confirmed.Not sure why people are complaining about this stage. Tropical Resort was one of the stages that represented Colors (Many Cutscenes were here and it was the center of the game.) It is a much better stage choice then the rumored Asteroid Coaster level.

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