Been meaning to try out the Deer God on Steam. Maybe I'll give it a shot here.

Epic Dumpster Bear with the permanent price cut already.

No price drop for xenoblade on 3DS?  Can I expect one soon?

Why would there be a price drop?


A virtual console-type release on Wii U and a full port to New 3DS are very different from a business perspective, and Nintendo doesn't normally drop pricing for first party games.


It's old enough that some stores might discount the game. It's possible there will be a sale on the digital version at some point.  But as far as I can tell, having Xenoblade available on Wii U eShop has nothing to do with pricing for the 3DS version.

I've played both the 3DS and the Wii version of Xenoblade. They're both AMAZING. Just get one! Don't go without this game.

Ejamer: I'm a casual consumer and didn't realize they were different enough to justify such a large price difference between systems.  I guess it makes sense when I think it through, but I'm not clear on the differences between ports, remakes, etc. I certainly won't be annoyed as a consumer if the price differential is really related to costs, but I might be if it were related to recouping arbitrary projections.

Xenoblade! That's all that matters. If you don't own it already (and even if you do), buy it immediately. It's absolutely amazing!!

Interested in The Deer God. What's the timeline for a review, staffers?

Sorry if that came off harshly. Didn't mean it that way.


For us, as gamers, it seems like there totally could/should be a price drop.  The 3DS game is essentially the same as the Wii release - just a port of an old game, and even that port is now pretty old.


Nintendo views things differently though.


First, they don't like to drop pricing on retail games regardless of age and have stated previously that they intent to maintain perceived value of games by avoiding aggressive price drops. So part of the reason I don't expect or predict price drops is because of their corporate policy.


Second, even though Xenoblade (the Wii version) is pretty old, when they remade the game for 3DS there was significant development effort to port the game to a less powerful system - both to make it work well and to add a few extra features. It's not a new game, but (presumably) took a lot more effort and expense to create than a ROM dump that gets digitally distributed.

Time to check out "free" crap because it's "free."

Ugh..  Still excited that Xenoblade is widely available at a decent price, but forgot about Canadian exchange rates. If it were $10, I'd impulse buy immediately. If it were $20, I'd still buy because Xenoblade is awesome. But the current asking price of $28.xx+tax is more than I typically pay for games that I already own two versions of.


I'll buy it eventually, just not today. Still good value (and a great game!) for anyone who doesn't already own it.

Thanks, that's helpful.  From the enthusiasm on this thread, sounds like I should just get it. I wanted to start playing it pretty badly a week or two ago, but was feeling guilty because I just dropped a decent amount of cash on some other games. I was looking for an excuse to justify putting it to the front of the queue, lol. I'll probably pick it up tomorrow for the weekend.

$28? I thought the standard was $24...

/checks Canadian Nintendo store
SON OF A... #mrgrgr

I know, right?  It's still a reasonable price for a great game, but the surprise increase for Wii games (and this new pricing applies to all Wii games available for download, although not for any other Virtual Console systems) sucks. It's even higher than standard conversion rates by a few bucks. I get how that can happen, especially when CAD is recovering from some brutal lows recently, but it still hurts the wallet.

That CDN pricing is total B.S. The dollar has been better recently, the prices should be deceasing, not increasing. And they're just hurting themselves. It's too high for impulse buy esp when we know the U.S. price. And it's a digital product = all gravy for them. Dumb.

the Australian dollar is worth 30 more cents then the us at the moment so why is the conversion rate for eshop cards and steam cards like $6 dollars more.

That's backwards, it's worth 33 cents less than the US dollar. Plus you guys have a 10% VAT, plus the Koalas, so it comes out about right if you factor all three in.