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Nintendo President Vows Cheap Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-mario-for-your-yen dept.

Chris Morris, over at CNN's Game Over column, had a chance to talk to Nintendo President Iwata last week about that company's goals for their next generation console. The message Morris came away with: $60 games are not in Nintendo's plans. From the article: "If we can come up with an addictive, but simple title - such as Tetris 15 years ago - my attention should be focused on containing costs ... So, I would make it available through the Virtual Console. I think the opportunity for ourselves will be much larger than software that costs $50-$60. ... Of course, there are a number of people waiting for a 'masterpiece' title. For those games, we'll utilized traditional distribution channels."

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  1. I couldn't agree more ... by Frag-A-Muffin · · Score: 2, Informative

    funny timing this article, I just blogged about it on my site. :)

    Basically, I ranted about how I saw Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion at futureshop the other day. The prices are getting a little out of hand if you ask me. This is what I saw:

    (All prices in $CDN)
    PC Version : $59.99
    XBOX 360 Version : $69.99
    XBOX 360 Deluxe Version : $79.99

    Why on earth are the console counterparts so much more? Does the xbox 360 license cost that much more? I certainly do not like this trend, and am happily awaiting my Nintendo Revolution. Speaking of Nintendo, here's another plug for them. I just picked up Tetris DS the last week for $34.97CDN. I've been playing it a LOT. It's a great pick me up game. I can turn it on, connect to Nintendo's Wifi service, have a few games against people around the world, all in the span of about 10 min. What a great deal this game is.

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  2. Re:Xbox360 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I don't mean to flame, but I really wish you'd learn to reply to the comment instead of the article. Click on the "Reply to This" link at the end of the comment you want to answer, not the Reply button at the top. That way, you won't break threading and appear to be talking to ghosts.

  3. Re:I don't have much faith by dalmiroy2k · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you find $30 for a DS game expensive wait until you see the price of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for PSP...