Nope; pretty sure that the Nintendo Selects are just discounted physical releases with a fancy border on their front-facing box art, historically done for some of the best-selling titles on the given console (thus far seen on the Wii, 3DS and Wii U).
It’s to show case best sellers. Same reason the PS1 did it, and every console since. Also the same reason books have editions that say bestseller on them.
@atocci@picandocodigo@TAG I’d also add that Nintendo has a history / policy of never reducing the price of a game. So if Zelda is $59 at release, it will still be $59 three years later. This avoids people “waiting a year” for the price to drop - if you want the game, you might as well buy it at launch (unless you want to buy it second hand).
Not really true, they discount their games on the eshop all the time. And if you’re talking physical copies, Target and other stores have sales all the time too. It’s just not as good as Ubisoft lowering the price of their games to $20 after a month or whatever, so people bitch and moan.
@Kiosade Both true and fair exceptions, just pointing out their general trend. Wasn’t trying to either bitch or moan 😅
The way I see it, they re-release games that continue selling well 3-4 years after the initial release at a lower price point so they can continue getting revenue from them without losing out to the 2nd hand market. I think many of their games continue selling much longer than typical AAA games.
Oh sorry, I wasn’t trying to say you were doing that, it’s just a thing I see quite often whenever this topic comes up.
And yeah, their games are generally pretty good, so they have staying power. This is compared to flavor of the month games where, once the general populace has had their fun with them, they die in a far-off corner, never to be heard of again.
I’ve been saying for a long time that Nintendo clearly buys back and destroys unsold first party stock. That’s why you can go search for a first party GameCube game and you’ll be paying out the ass for a used copy. I guess it’s their way of keeping their games popular and not have unopened copies all over the place
I just assume that the Nintendo first party games tend to sell well and sell for a long time, so when they stop getting manufactured, they all sell out and still have a bit of demand left that scoops up used copies. They are not making Madden or Call of Duty, which sell well for a year and then everyone is looking to sell last year’s version.
The GameCube really didn’t sell that well. They produced less stock overall, thus less supply compared with other systems like PS2.
When comparing with the ps2 specifically, it gets even more skewed as new ps2 games were still being made and released years after the ps3 came out. Not just new copies, but entirely new games.
They have a perfectly good explanation in the first paragraph of the article:
What’s the point of those sorts of re-releases? Are the contents any different from the game that was on store shelves previously?
Nope; pretty sure that the Nintendo Selects are just discounted physical releases with a fancy border on their front-facing box art, historically done for some of the best-selling titles on the given console (thus far seen on the Wii, 3DS and Wii U).
And they did this before with “Player’s Choice” on SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Cube and Game Boy Advance.
And “Nintendo Selects” on Wii U, Wii, & 3DS
It’s to show case best sellers. Same reason the PS1 did it, and every console since. Also the same reason books have editions that say bestseller on them.
@atocci @picandocodigo @TAG I’d also add that Nintendo has a history / policy of never reducing the price of a game. So if Zelda is $59 at release, it will still be $59 three years later. This avoids people “waiting a year” for the price to drop - if you want the game, you might as well buy it at launch (unless you want to buy it second hand).
Not really true, they discount their games on the eshop all the time. And if you’re talking physical copies, Target and other stores have sales all the time too. It’s just not as good as Ubisoft lowering the price of their games to $20 after a month or whatever, so people bitch and moan.
@Kiosade Both true and fair exceptions, just pointing out their general trend. Wasn’t trying to either bitch or moan 😅
The way I see it, they re-release games that continue selling well 3-4 years after the initial release at a lower price point so they can continue getting revenue from them without losing out to the 2nd hand market. I think many of their games continue selling much longer than typical AAA games.
Oh sorry, I wasn’t trying to say you were doing that, it’s just a thing I see quite often whenever this topic comes up.
And yeah, their games are generally pretty good, so they have staying power. This is compared to flavor of the month games where, once the general populace has had their fun with them, they die in a far-off corner, never to be heard of again.
Back in the day of PS2 I remember the greatest hits copies used black and white manuals instead of color copies.
Now that manuals are gone I’m not sure how much different they’d be. Maybe including some DLC similar to a GOTY edition.
I’ve been saying for a long time that Nintendo clearly buys back and destroys unsold first party stock. That’s why you can go search for a first party GameCube game and you’ll be paying out the ass for a used copy. I guess it’s their way of keeping their games popular and not have unopened copies all over the place
That is a very bold assertion.
I just assume that the Nintendo first party games tend to sell well and sell for a long time, so when they stop getting manufactured, they all sell out and still have a bit of demand left that scoops up used copies. They are not making Madden or Call of Duty, which sell well for a year and then everyone is looking to sell last year’s version.
The Disney of games companies.
The GameCube really didn’t sell that well. They produced less stock overall, thus less supply compared with other systems like PS2.
When comparing with the ps2 specifically, it gets even more skewed as new ps2 games were still being made and released years after the ps3 came out. Not just new copies, but entirely new games.