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Virtua Tennis Comments by Kristan Reed

10 March, 2003

Anyone for tennis?

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boabg
10/03/03 @ 15:39
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Review - anyone for tennis?

don't look like it m8
krudster [mod]
10/03/03 @ 15:51
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I think it's more a case of GBA apathy...Nintendo has some serious work to do if it wants anyone to part with cash to buy inferior versions of classic games, which is essentially all you're doing when you buy a GBA title (unless it's an original title, which is almost unheard of).
Errol
10/03/03 @ 16:01
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Yes, the price of GBA titles is too much. If they were at the most £15, they would sell more games.
Blerk
10/03/03 @ 16:06
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Nintendo has some serious work to do if it wants anyone to part with cash to buy inferior versions of classic games

Not really - they just need to make them cheap enough to be viable as an 'impulse purchase'. If this was (say) a tenner then I guarantee they'd sell a lot more copies.

Edit: Heh, Errol got in before me. That'll teach me to go to the bog in the middle of a post. :-)
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eviltobz
10/03/03 @ 16:11
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yep, i'd buy it for a tenner, but i dont use my gba enough to warrant spending £30 odd quid on it
krudster [mod]
10/03/03 @ 16:19
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It's in Nintendo's power to cut the price, but I'm guessing that carts are relatively expensive media. Anyone got a clue how much the cost is to Nintendo? I think the royalty fee is about $12 or something insane, if you're a third party publisher. There's just so little money to be made from GBA games from a publisher's point of view it's a joke. Retail do ok though.
otto [mod]
10/03/03 @ 16:21
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Yup, I read the review, was rather interested, but couldn't justify it at the price.
binky
10/03/03 @ 16:56
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ditto otto.

Kruds' I'll see if i can find out....

binky
10/03/03 @ 17:03
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hhmm they charge us 10euros. thats WITH packaging apparently.

sheesh.
Keyser_Soze
10/03/03 @ 17:15
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I love this game on the DC, would find it hard to play an inferior version tho. As for GBA prices, I saw Eternal Darkness for 45euro (bargain!) in my local Xtra Vision below it was the GBA Metroid for the same price. It's total madness.
krudster [mod]
10/03/03 @ 17:29
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10 EUROS! Is it any wonder the GBA market's screwed? What price would you lot be prepared to part with for a run of the mill handheld game?
otto [mod]
10/03/03 @ 17:55
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Honestly? Fifteen quid/20 euros at a push. No more.
eviltobz
10/03/03 @ 18:01
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yeah, that sounds about right, £10-15 would make gba games seem like worthwhile impulse buys. as i hardly ever use the thing i need a good reason to buy a game. golden sun is great, so is advance wars, and elite, but you cant get that other than on a homebrew/pirate flash device. other than those i have a hard time thinking of any games that i want for it.
krudster [mod]
10/03/03 @ 19:09
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£10-£15 is never gonna happen until a company works out a cheaper media. Cartridge has always been a stupidly expensive format.
Ciaran
10/03/03 @ 19:22
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I'd be ready to pay a bit more than otto for GBA games, let's say some €30. Right now it's ridiculous though. I've seen high street prices at €68 for some games! That's almost €10 *more* than your run of the mill GC game.
otto [mod]
10/03/03 @ 20:30
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Yeah I realise €20 isn't going to happen for GBA carts, but that's the price they'd have to be to get real volume sales, I'd have thought. But like Ciaran says, anything would be an improvement. I'd really quite fancy Virtua Tennis, but there's not a hope in hell that I'll pay €50 or more for it.
binky
10/03/03 @ 21:39
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I'd say £19.99 was a reasonable asking price for a GBA cart.
Errol
10/03/03 @ 23:35
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anyone for tennis ?
Blerk
11/03/03 @ 08:24
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£10-£15 is never gonna happen until a company works out a cheaper media. Cartridge has always been a stupidly expensive format.

Don't Nintendo make all the carts themselves, though? If they opened up the market and allowed the companies to produce their own carts then costs would obviously be brought down as other companies begin to compete with each other to produce the hardware.
mal
11/03/03 @ 17:49
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As for GBA prices, I saw Eternal Darkness for 45euro (bargain!) in my local Xtra Vision below it was the GBA Metroid for the same price. It's total madness.

Actually, GBA Metroid is one of the few games that I'd say is worth the full price. I've certainly got a lot more play out of GBA Metroid than I have out of Eternal Darkness so far.

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