It's today only.Hmmm...how long is this code valid for? I may preorder a pro controller if I can.
It's today only.Hmmm...how long is this code valid for? I may preorder a pro controller if I can.
Why is £280 too much for their new console considering a new 3DS XL is £200 and a Wii U is £250 ?
Anecdotal as it is, I've seen kids own Playstation consoles simply because it's a bigboi system and/or their cooler older bro owns one. Fuck Nintendo because that's for kids.
They are also too much, nobody is buying those either.
I got a New 3DS XL used for ~£100 (in surprisingly good condition) and I wouldn't have paid much more.
Is that why the 3DS was sold out everywhere last month?
Okay, HERE we go:
Using Amazon's BIGTHANKS (£10 off over £50 until end of Jan 20) you can get Zelda + MK8 for £80.98 w/ Prime. £40.49 each!
Add them both to basket, use BIGTHANKS
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=FLBlYiXnMiXonwQKxOfF6ByQ&v=HunCJsXJVQ4
I mean, be fair, that reputation isn't completely undeserved.
Even for kids advertising, it's offensive. When you were young would you have told your friends that clean is better than dirty and the world's a special place?
Cheers man. MK8D & 12S for £66
I think if the average customer walked into a game store and the budget games were all £49.99 and the higher games were all £59.99, they'd pretty quickly just nope out of that store. It's hard to justify that kind of money on a videogame when you've got food and bills to cover.
I just think the 'value' of a game is pretty set in most people's minds.
I tend to think of an indie/budget game as being £20-25, a mid-tier game as £30-35 and a top tier game as £35-45 (although certain retailers charge more or less, obviously).
I think if the average customer walked into a game store and the budget games were all £49.99 and the higher games were all £59.99, they'd pretty quickly just nope out of that store. It's hard to justify that kind of money on a videogame when you've got food and bills to cover.
£35 or less gets into that "Oh, go on then..." price mentality where you can just about justify the purchase.
Talking about Nintendo's market share in the UK, the handhelds have always been very popular and the Wii was also a massive success. It's not as if no British person has ever heard of Nintendo.
My Son is 13 - he has 360 and Ps4 - he plays in Clans and big parties - typically they will play a bit of Destiny (6 in party), then switrch to GTA 5 / Division / Rocketleague / COD / TF2 / FIFA
They jump around in large parties with school mates, often facetime as well - games are large coop games online.
He never hear of Switch, neither has his mates, Nintendo been dead since Wii craze when kids moved over to party gaming and minecraft.
Nintendo does not understand beyond Japan and their hardcore fans.
My 5 year old nephew is mad about Pokémon at the moment and has got a 3DS and several games now (Mario Party, Pokémon and others). I have anecdotal evidence to offer too
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Okay, HERE we go:
Using Amazon's BIGTHANKS (£10 off over £50 until end of Jan 20) you can get Zelda + MK8 for £80.98 w/ Prime. £40.49 each!
Add them both to basket, use BIGTHANKS
Okay, HERE we go:
Using Amazon's BIGTHANKS (£10 off over £50 until end of Jan 20) you can get Zelda + MK8 for £80.98 w/ Prime. £40.49 each!
Add them both to basket, use BIGTHANKS
Fundamentally different prospects though to fair. Not just in what the device does and how it does it, but in entirely different types of software. I'd wager that whether Zelda at launch, Splatoon in summer or Mario in winter is enough to justify the cost, is a much more relevant problem than what the cost of a PS4 is.
The answer could definitely be no and that the software library they build over the next 9 months does not entice people to put down for a switch, but I always got the idea that when someone goes into a game store or online to purchase a console in this day and age that they have a vague idea of what kind of games they like and how they want to play them. You could legit flip flop between an xbox or playstation on a given day if all you want to do is play third party western games at home. If you went in wanting a Nintendo system, or a portable system, I think you would go in asking whether $300 is too much for that, look at a 3ds etc. You don't suddenly want a playstation, nor do you necessarily want one for your kid if the goal is something for the car and so on.
Also, for Nintendo's goals and ambitions, the Ps4 can be what price it likes, it hasn't stopped Japanese gamers heading to mobile only, and that is a main priority here, to provide a system and ecosystem between mobile, 3ds and the switch, to prevent the very culture of playing games to change completely for everyone in the business over there.
The thing is, when it comes to the market here, people tend to learn towards value just as much as each product's unique offering. The fact that people can get Switch's competitor and two, three, maybe four games is quite alluring.
Switch will come down in price eventually, and they will release more games for it. It just has to face the fact it's going up against two very well established platforms (as usual).
Using that, 1-2 Switch is only £25.... I'm actually tempted!
Anyone got any theories on why Nintendo doesn't have as strong a legacy in the UK as other parts of the world?
The thing is, when it comes to the market here, people tend to learn towards value just as much as each product's unique offering. The fact that people can get Switch's competitor and two, three, maybe four games is quite alluring.
Switch will come down in price eventually, and they will release more games for it. It just has to face the fact it's going up against two very well established platforms (as usual).
Why is £280 too much for their new console considering a new 3DS XL is £200 and a Wii U is £250 ?
Too many people were tweeting the RRP and expecting to pay that. When does anyone pay the full RRP of a game on launch? Even for Nintendo, the last launch game I got was Colour Splash and that was £32, sure as hell wasn't the RRP.
They're also overpriced.
Especially the 3DS.
Typically when I walk in to GAME, new PS4 and XBONE titles are around £54.99-£59.99 anyway
Nintendo don't set the prices in Europe and the UK. They're not allowed to.
does that mean Nintendo (and others) can dictate prices outside Europe?
You probably shouldn't let your 8-year-old play COD.
does that mean Nintendo (and others) can dictate prices outside Europe?
Seriously. It's approaching 6 years old and the top end models cost nearly as much as a PS4 or Xbox One.
They're losing money on the Wii U so NCL refuse to lower the price of 3DS hardware because it would entail greater losses to their bottom line. ie prospective 3DS owners are having to subsidise losses on the company's console side. That's how badly this company is run.
Yet the market is paying that high 3ds price; even now the 3ds is not widely available bar the very recent stock replenish on amazon.
Given the above from a business perspective, it's good given the circumstances*
*the circumstances being a direct result of bad management during the Wii U inception-release. Gotta do best in the situation and to be clear I'm not saying it's ok either but it is what it is.
Like you say, bad situation all round.
Is the market paying that high 3DS price? Would really need to dig into the figures to be able to tell. Also, 3DS not being widely available is not indicative of any great demand situation for the hardware either.
I have to look at it in this way: customer refuses to buy 3DS at a given price and instead buys a competitor product. Customer further buys software, DLC etc for that competitor product. Had NCL lowered the price of the 3DS to market levels [plus "reasonable" profit], NCL would easily offset the lowered cost by all future software purchases for.that customer and all future customers.