Still too much. But a discount’s a discount.

People determine value for other people all the time when they throw their money at over-priced emulator-run compilations like this.

I didn’t get that but I did get a lot of free OST CDs with Nintendo Power subscriptions in the late 90s.

Nintendo Selects/Player’s Choice games do need to make a comeback.

Use an emulator?

I believe stores in Europe have more flexibility in straying from the suggested retail price than stores in the US. However, I’ve heard people have been buying the game for $50 at Walmart in-store so it seems like that’s currently within acceptable parameters but Walmart isn’t really advertising it much.

The current price is not $20 per game. That’s just an average of three different values Nintendo probably has for those three games.

My first comment was a jab at that fancy anniversary release of Super Mario All-Stars. They dolled up the box art and made Mario all golden and tried to sell it as a legit Wii title when it was really just a glorified VC game and it wasn’t even the improved version at that, with Super Mario World. No, it was the…

I’m gonna have to bookmark that site and put it next to dekudeals.com.

Well, you can be sure that the companies selling you stuff are certainly doing this calculus, and more, and hope the consumers either aren't or don't care.

Well, maybe Jim Sterling just thinks Nintendo was being a POS for their shitty business practices.

It just sounds like you’re justifying the increased price on the part of the company selling a game in a supplier-to-consumer market by factoring in prices from a consumer-to-consumer market, which makes no sense to me since the latter market has legitimate supply limitations, not forced supply limitations Nintendo is…

My understanding is the remastering of those was substantially more robust with some extras thrown in.

As much as I want to avoid Walmart... I should give it a shot anyway.

I mean, I’d say that’s been the case for the last 4 years or so, but it wasn’t always that way.

I believe my original post was overexaggerated sarcasm. If you don’t agree, I don’t really know what to tell you at that point.

I know. I just wanted to give legitimate means a chance first. But when anti-consumer practices get in the way, then I’m going to call it out.

Well, it’s up to you how you spend your money, of course. But let me explain my reasoning for my criticising this game’s price.

Wait specifically 2 years after Nintendo has put in place a limited release window, as I acknowledged in my original post, and once those 2 years have passed, to then look on ebay to buy it from other consumers in a completely different market where the limited supply is legitimate and expect it to be $45?