Topic: Pre-purchase digitally - The Pros and many Cons: But I have a solution

Well I can only say that Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe have different managers. And you don't have to outright call them greedy, saying they should be discounting digital automatically implies it.

@skywake, I was surprised that you weren't!

No saying that digital games should have some incentive to going all in instead of getting a physical disc I can sell off is just an idea or a hope.

I never once called any one greedy I can't help it if you like to imply things that were not implied

Also I am a 4 yr in a row Platinum member of the now shuttered Club Nintendo. Last two yrs I had over 2000 coins each yr. To feel Nintendo might want to throw myself and other loyal customers a DLC bone is not uncalled for

You get even worse than nothing, a price increase!

Not really an increase just no discount

But you do get "bones" - I've got a box of three collector's coins that says that. Does NoA do nothing to reward loyal customers?

With Club Nintendo and I got a Tomadachi Life demo code early due to my platinum status but nothing outside of club nintendo

Sarcasm set aside, I would like to see Nintendo to give more initiatives to purchase digitally.

Maybe have flash sales on 1+ year old games that are hard to find.

They do have awesome digital sales got Toad treasure tracker for $20 and Duck Tales Remastered for $6

I was just following the train of thought that this line of thinking normally goes down. Because these products are digital some people see them as "inferior" which is not true and the industry needs to realize that, on both the company and consumer side. Digital has its benefits and its negatives, just like physical does. There shouldn't be a price difference because it is the same product.

Yes, well, flash sales if done right can pull in extra money for Nintendo. Flash sales should encourage impulse buys above all else.

Once a game's sales have met its budget, any extra sales is mostly profit anyway, so Nintendo wouldn't lose much by making Ocarina of Time 3D $10 for a limited time.

You are jumping to conclusions. Just because I strongly believe a small discount should apply to digital games simply because we are giving up the chance of trading them in. This doesn't mean I think it's less of a game.

Look at it this way:
If I buy a HDX (1080p) off of VUDU (Digital movie service in America) it will between 15 to 20 bucks. If I buy the same movie on Blu Ray it will be normal mid 20s to 30 bucks. There is a savings passed onto the Customer for getting it digitally.

The only movies I spend more than $20 bucks on are Disney movies. Most Blu Rays I buy are $15-$20, same price as digital.

Congrats on your savvy purchasing. However since I have a 4 yr old in buy plenty of Disney movies so my example still holds true.

Congrats, my point still stands as well. (Also I buy a lot of Disney movies too. My wife and I are trying to get all the Diamond Edition re-releases)

You weren't making a point just posting random counterpoints to everything I say

My point was that outside of Disney, digital and physical HD movies are the same price.

And how did you prove this point? By simply stating the movies you buy match their digital price? That isn't proving your point it just means you are buying movies at a great price. More than Disney movies can be expensive

and you just said the opposite... this conversation is getting really repetitive. You are arguing that a digital game should be cheaper than a physical game because you are getting less (Box, manual) while my argument is that the price you are paying is for the software alone. (box and manual shouldn't effect the price and should be considered the bonus for buying physical) Digital has its benefits and Physical has its benefits. I don't think one should be cheaper than the other.

There was a editorial piece just posted on this site. I just started reading it and I think you should read it too before we continue this conversation.

Well from my experience usually the prices are in the same ballpark. A service like iTunes usually sticks to a fixed, regular price while retailers price it wherever they want. For example a movie I got the other day in the shops for $20? Another store was selling it for $29 and iTunes is charging $25. Then with music iTunes is charging $17 for new releases that are $20 in the shops. Most of the time. There are some releases that are $10 in the shops that iTunes is charging $17 for. Not unlike games really, sometimes it's cheaper and sometimes it's not.