Remember, Player's Choice wasn't restricted to Nintendo-published titles. Many 3rd party titles (Spider-Man for instance, or various Sonic games) were GC Player's Choice. All that label meant was a price drop and tacky yellow packaging...price drops still happen (especially for poor selling titles like TMNT on Wii), just without the new labelling.
The DS/Wii generation is a time of re-branding for Nintendo. Their packages no longer have the purple "Only For" label in the corner for exclusive titles...perhaps they'd also like to do away with forced price-drops for top-selling games as well. It certainly won't stop 3rd party companies from dropping prices and Nintendo probably will as well. Maybe Nintendo ran the numbers...their 1st party titles tend to sell well for years after release even at full price, so perhaps they don't see a benefit in lowering it. Who knows. I can't see this impacting sales much either way.
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Remember, Player's Choice wasn't restricted to Nintendo-published titles. Many 3rd party titles (Spider-Man for instance, or various Sonic games) were GC Player's Choice. All that label meant was a price drop and tacky yellow packaging...price drops still happen (especially for poor selling titles like TMNT on Wii), just without the new labelling.
The DS/Wii generation is a time of re-branding for Nintendo. Their packages no longer have the purple "Only For" label in the corner for exclusive titles...perhaps they'd also like to do away with forced price-drops for top-selling games as well. It certainly won't stop 3rd party companies from dropping prices and Nintendo probably will as well.
Maybe Nintendo ran the numbers...their 1st party titles tend to sell well for years after release even at full price, so perhaps they don't see a benefit in lowering it. Who knows. I can't see this impacting sales much either way.