Wii Games Hit The Bargain Bin Faster Than PS3, 360 Ones

[wraggster]

The researchers at Electronic Entertainment Design and...Research have been looking at console game sales patterns. Looking at how long it takes a game to enter "price protection", which is a term used for when a publisher - having noticed a game isn't selling very well - lowers the wholesale cost of a game so that retailers can keep it on the shelves at full price, even when the public are ignoring it. What they've found is that this practice occurs for 7.5% of 360 games. And 9.09% of PS3 games. But the Wii? It happens for 15.1% of titles.

http://kotaku.com/5095245/wii-games-hit-the-bargain-bin-faster-than-ps3-360-ones

[mcdougall57]

As a wii owner, how would this be bad news? Games are cheaper therefore you buy more of them, simple as.

[goshogun1]

I love my wii, but I think games like "Deer Drive", any "imagine" game, and the slew of casual PC game ports for this. Games like Mario kart, SSBB will always be a little more.

[Cerepol]

well of course, if you look at the ratios of shovelware for each system. you'll see why it's not ****ing rocket science.

[quzar]

The starting prices and production costs also make this clear. Less PS3 and X360 games are reduced because the publishers can't afford to if they want to make any money.

[WhizzBang]

I can't say I have noticed this in the games shops in my area. Cheap 360 games are far easier to come by here in Malmö, Sweden.

[osgeld]

well of course, if you look at the ratios of shovelware for each system. you'll see why it's not ****ing rocket science.

aye, wii games have the "5 year old wailing his arms like a tard" market cornered

even for a 5 year old that has to be a game life of what? a week

[gutbub]

I got my Wii the first month it came out. I remember going into Gamestop a few days later, and games for the Wii were already as cheap as $14.95. It seems to me that lots of Wii games take maybe a month to get that cheap.

[m-p{3}]

One work the explain the situation: shovelware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shovelware#Modern_usage).

[gamev8]

You guys are missing the point of the article entirely.
It's not about cheap shovelwere its about lowering the cost that the retailers (Wal-Mart,Best Buy,etc...) have to pay to keep titles in stock at Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price.