When a game is available new for $20 you can't sell it used for more than that. Nintendo doesn't offer a Player's Choice option anymore. Electronic Entertainment Design and Research Director of Analytical Services Jesse Divnich stated that retailers "don't fully understand the Wii consumer yet which often leads to retail sell-outs, which correlates with higher resale prices." VGPC pointed out that "the top four titles on the top games by resale price list are Wii games that were sold out at many stores at the end of 2008." VGPC also suggested that retailers are raising the demand for used Wii games by failing to stock enough titles to begin with. Games for the "hardcore" crowd tend to be played through quickly and then resold in order to purchase a new game. They stated that "casual games," such as Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit, tend to sell consistently over time and have better resale values because people are more likely to play them continuously. VGPC discussed some of the factors that lead to a particular titles value retention including game quality, lastability, and appeal. On average, secondhand DS games sold for 25.5 percent off their MSRP, and used Wii games sold at only a 25.4 percent decrease. They also discovered that Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, Rapala Fishing Frenzy, and the Rock Band 2 bundle actually surpassed their MSRP pricing by 16 to 55 percent when sold used.Īlthough Nintendo-published games did not claim the top spot in value retention, used games for Nintendo's Wii and DS consoles maintained their prices better than all other consoles on the market. They found that Nintendo-published titles have an average value decrease of 12.9 percent between MSRP and second-hand pricing. The study, conducted by pricing data site Video Game Price Charts, compared the resale price of games from publishers who had released six or more game SKUs (meaning different editions of the same game are counted separately) in 2008. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.According to a recent analysis of the second-hand game market, Nintendo-published titles retain their value longer than those of any other publisher save Bethesda. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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