AlexSays wrote:
Scar, I can't even do this with you. lol
The market determines the price of games and nearly every other product. If the price is too high, it will be lowered or the product will suffer. If you have trouble understanding how a free market economy works on a more complex level, you'll have to find someone with a little more patience to explain it to you.
I understand the free market, but it's not how you think it works apparently.
The PS3 did horrible for about half of of the 7th generation.
There are ways they could have done better with the PS3, and by lowering the price just because it's not selling has to do with how many consoles you make and plan to sell in the first place.
If a 3rd party ports a game to the Wii U, it would probably cost $3 mil. If they make a game specificly for the Wii U, it would most likely cost $15 million.
$60 a game would require them to sell 50,000 at 3 million, and 250,000 copies at 15 million.
Now, you have to look at how many people have a Wii U. There's about 4 million people that bought the thing and bought a few games already. That's already profit/good news.
People that already have a Wii U are probably going to buy Pikmin 3, but 1/16 of Wii U owners NEED to buy the game for it to break even. Anything after that is profit.
EDIT: I'm not saying you should buy a game based on morals(although the 3rd party for Wii U argument is basically that to many), but if a game needs to sell 250,000 copies to break even, and it gets a "half off" price drop before they meet that threshold, the 250,000 goal becomes a 400,000, and that's only if they sold 50,000 copies or so by the time of the price drop.
Edited on by SCRAPPER392
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