Overview
- Speaking at an NYU Game Center event, the former Nintendo of America chief said Nintendo rarely discounts first-party games by choice.
- He described a philosophy of shipping games complete and avoiding large day-one patches that take hours to download.
- He cited The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as never discounted, a claim Nintendo Everything corrected with evidence of an official markdown years after launch.
- Reporting also notes that Nintendo runs periodic eShop sales with modest cuts that often top out around 30 percent.
- Fils-Aimé added that prices should match a game's value rather than a fixed number, and no change to Nintendo’s discounting approach was announced.