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Do you think when companies give sales they are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts?

Most first party games are also on sale every now and then.

Also, what's wrong with letting third party games have some extra sales?

Won’t take the sorry ass excuses coming from the regular Nintendo Defense Force members.

When launch titles are still sold at full price and barely, if ever, go on sale, you have no fucking viable argument to defend this.

I can't believe you're getting downvoted and given excuses from a corporate suck up manual, when literally everyone else has sales for their 1st party games all year round...

@Chazore: Can’t believe it? I knew the NDF was going to get at me. Nintendo can do no wrong. They invented life itself and everything that is good in the world is because of them.

@Hynad: Your post was obviously flawed and I pointed that out. Everything else is only happening in your head.

Nintendo games generally sell sooo much over the years. If they drop price they would loose tonnes of money. Obviously if they see more people are not buying their games because of price then they might change. But we have yet to see that with their major IPs

Lol @GoOnKid. Here we go!!

@Hynad

They got at me in that Bayo thread, pretty hastily if you ask me.

lol at the OG post being "flawed"

EVERY OTHER FIRST PARTY COMPANY HAS SALES ON THEIR FIRST PARTY GAMES. WHY IS THIS SO HARD FOR ALL YA'LL TO UNDERSTAND!?.

Ninty has a very well know standing when it comes to slashing prices: They firmly believe it "devalues" said games, and well, they are mostly on their own with that poorly thought out philosophy (because slashing prices actually helps drive sales, imagine a world where there's no sale ever, and everything stays the same price for eternity...that's Nintendo's logic).

The problem with the logic is asserting that it is some kind of exceptional greed on Nintendo's part. Other companies are not putting their games on sale for altruistic reasons, but because they think that's going to help them make the most money in the long run. Nintendo feels keeping their games at full price is a better business model, and based on the continued demand for their titles, it's kind of hard to argue. If WB games thought they could be selling Scribblenauts for 60 bucks right now, they would.

@Chazore like I said. If Price is the issue people are not buying Nintendo games then they should consider lowering the price. But the Major IPs have proven that they can still sell millions throughout many months and years at a high price.

If you have a fan base like this why would you fix something that ain't broken.

@JNation

Apparently if these businessmen were offered 60 dollars for a copy of Breath of the Wild, they'd counter with 20.

You didn’t disappoint. Predictable as ever. :-D

I'd prefer it if they did more price cuts, but if the games keep selling why bother. I'm sure if Sony and Microsoft or any company could they would do the exact same.

Nintendo also don't tend to do those severely overpriced digital deluxe bundles, that a lot of other companies do or fill there games with microtransactions. Although I assume that you've probably brought up issues with both of those in the past.

My point being that most of these companies are greedy in one way or another, that it is hypocritical to bring up one and pretend the other are virtuous and doing everything out of the kindness of there hearts.

Calling one greedy doesn’t, in any way, say that the others act from the kindness of their heart.

If you're inferring a company is greedy because they don't put their games on sale, doesn't that imply that those who do put their games are not greedy?

Or less greedy anyway. Which would imply they are are acting generously.

Must be something, seeing the world on black and white.

It seems that whenever someone disagrees with you, you counter by saying something about the person, rather than actually addressing the idea. Can you actually address the points?

Does putting games on sale indicate a company is more or less greedy than companies who do not? Or is it not an indication of greed one way or the other? Those are the only three options.

What are you trying to say then? If Nintendo is greedy for not lowering prices and other companies are greedy when they lower prices then you commenting in the first place was redundant.
The thing is Nintendo makes most of its money off of game sales while Sony and Microsoft makes most of there money off of expensive paid online, deluxe editions and DLC. Nintendo has these as well, but to a much lesser extent. All in all it adds up to everyone being much the same level of greedy.