Nintendo Clarifies "New Control Play!" Prices
When Nintendo first announced that the company would be porting revisiting some of their previously waggle-less releases under the "New Control Play!" branding, most would have assumed that the releases would come with a discounted price. The development for the game is primarily completed and adapting a new set of controls can't be that hard. All they had to do was add some duct tape, right?
Wrong...maybe?
Yesterday, GamesIndustry.biz reported on retailers suggesting that the Wii-makes would carry a recommended retail price of GBP 39.99 (That's just over $55 in US WingWangs), but Nintendo responded today by saying that the titles are only GBP 29.99 ($41 US WingWangs). While Nintendo has promised additional levels and content for these games, I can't help but feel a little uneasy about these prices. If things like the incredible Pikmin or Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat didn't sell at $50 the first time, why would it fly off the shelves at $40 now? It still seems a little high for something that is essentially the same game, but that didn't stop Ninja Gaiden: Sigma from releasing with an inflated price, so what do I know?
I suppose the value for Cube veterans will be in the amount of new content that's added to each of these releases. I won't lie, I'll shamefully buy anything that features Captain Olimar and I'm be interested to see what will be added to DK: Jungle Beat since it was one my favorites on the cube, but if I'm not getting a "new game," I shouldn't be paying "new game" prices.
[Nintendo responds to GameCube-Wii title pricing] GamesIndustry.biz
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Videos on 21 January 2009
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would just like to point out that simply converting the GBP to USD isn't an acurate reflection of what the US prices will be. The US generally gets things cheaper than the UK
For example:
RRP for Little Big Planet from Amazon.co.UK is £49.99 which is roughly $69.99 if you just convert the currency
But RRP on Amazon.COM for Little Big Planet is $59.99, $10 less than it is by simply converting currency.
Don't know if $10 will make much difference though... but at least it doesn't seem as expensive as it first looks (for the US gamers anyway... still expensive for us Brits xD)
Cerberus is right, the UK pricing may not be a good indicator of what the US pricing will be.
I can't really see Nintendo charging more than $29.99 for these in the US, but good luck if they want to try.
Hasn't this version of Pikmin been out in Japan for a month already? I'd think we would have heard about any extra levels or features by now.
I know that Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is apparently an entirely different game now, which is promising if considerably less unique than the Gamecube version.