What? I bought the Croft Steelbook Edition of Rise of the Tomb Raider for $30 from Amazon. Kingdom Hearts 3 regularly goes for $20. Most of the Kingdom Hearts games regularly go for $20. Pretty much any new Final Fantasy game has been $20 in a couple of months, you can find WoFF Maxima right now for $20. They're one of the only companies that constantly, and I do mean constantly, throws their stuff on sales. I have seen FFXV Royal Edition, the season pass, and Deus Ex going for peanuts even digitally every couple of weeks. Even right now they're doing massive sales.
The amount of shills in the Twitter thread defending this is hilarious
Zachary Mitchell
Isaac Campbell
I'm sure they do okay enough in those regions, but Canada's entire population alone is less than the state of California so as bad as it sounds Nintendo probably isn't overly concerned they would be in last or second place there in terms of console sales.
Honestly a bigger issue (though not as prevalent as it use to be) is Nintendo short supplying NA and European region with games. They flat out would just not print more copies of pokemon games after a year or two in the west leading to new copies of soul silver being 80 dollars so quickly.
Cameron Cox
It's weird the only stuff they dont drop prices on is their more niche stuff like Nier.
Jaxson Foster
I bought Nier for $20 years ago, the newer copies are $40 because of the reprints. Automata is $20 all over the place as well though usually it sits at $40 in some stores.
Aaron Nelson
The Pokemon situation happened in my country as well. I remember when the 3DS come out people were selling used copies of HGSS for like $80.
Nathan Gomez
That actually makes sense to not drop prices on niche products.
Jose King
Oh those reprints may explain why I thought that.
Blake Ramirez
What is this American mentality where you always bitch about prices of store bought games? I don't think anyone in Europe does that, you either buy it on release or wait a month or two and get it second hand, perfect condition, for probably 40$. BOTW is around 35-40 and not hard to get at all.
Joshua Bailey
Sony: Bargin bin trash
MS: Bargin bin trash but also netflix sub
Steam: Literal trash bin hey I think someone threw an aaa console game from last year in here
Nintendo: Premium quality
Mason Baker
But n64 and gc actually got price cuts to the games with the palyers choice selection. Base price was halfed to 30 and then goes lower from the stores sales.