Nintendo are saying the Digital versions need to be priced the same as the physical copies, to keep the store owners that sell their software happy.

Physical games will be more expensive due to the price of the cartridge.
Digital games will have to match it, because of nintendo.

Nintendo wants to keep store owners happy with their product.

Their afraid if digital copies are 5-10$ cheaper than their physical ones, people will use the mom & dad stores less to buy stuff.

After the Wii U, Nintendo probably isnt all that popular with alot of these stores, and doesnt want to do anything to push them away.

So Nintendo is makeing it so the digital version is priced the same as the physical one.

Have EG been asleep for the past 30 years? Games on newer platforms have always cost more to buy, on Wii U Deus Ex cost 50 quid when it was 30 everywhere else, the weren't any carts back then.

They're ignoring one of the most logical thing which is that developers/retailers are taking advantage of the system at launch.

We'll see, I never buy games over the price of £39.99

Is there an official statement of Nintendo about that or is it just that urban legend again to justify high eShop/PSN/XBL prices?

Solid state is in. Welcome to 2017.

You can keep your primitive archaic kilobyte per second sub 100 IOPS mechanical media in 1959.

Cant remember where I read it, but someguy talked to someone that would know and was basically told so. Read it in a article talking about the subject of digital prices of nitnendo games, being higher than PS4/XB1 versions.

Theres no official statement I can give you that I know of though, no.

They've done something similar in the past with 3DS/WiiU, expect it with the Switch.
FYI the eShop top-up cards also work on the Switch.

Interesting information you come forth with. Do you have a source?

It's launch prices plus greed (that term that was thrown around these past months with Nintendo's accessories).

3DS games cost less, so this cannot be the reason at all.

http://www.looper.com/48766/cartridges-driving-cost-nintendo-switch-games/

"Rime, the Zelda-like adventure game from Tequila Works and Grey Box Games, costs $10 more on the Switch than on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or PC. So does Puyo Puyo Tetris, which will cost $40 on the Switch, and not $30 like it does on the PS4."

"That's a big difference, and the folks over at Eurogamer think they've figured out why. According to a few unnamed sources, the price difference occurs because of the Nintendo Switch's proprietary cartridges, which cost much more to manufacture than a normal Blu-ray disc.

The Switch game cards come in a variety of different sizes—anywhere from 1 gigabyte to 32 gigabytes—and the bigger the game, the more the cartridge costs. In addition, manufacturing costs change based on how many copies of the game are made (more is generally cheaper), meaning that publishers who commit to small runs might have to pay extra. As a result, Switch developers paying extra-close attention to how much data their games use, but sometimes they're forced to charge more in order to recoup manufacturing costs.

But, if physical media is the problem, why are the prices also higher on the Nintendo eShop? Eurogamer has an answer for that, too. Allegedly, in order to placate brick-and-mortar retailers, Nintendo requires any game sold on the digital storefront to have the same price tag as its physical version."

"...it looks like companies making multiplatform games that are also coming out on Nintendo Switch are stuck between a rock and a hard place."

This is also why "Snake Pass" is going digital only release.

"Snake Pass, from Sumo Digital, comes out on 29th March priced £15.99 on all platforms: that's PS4, Xbox One, PC and Nintendo Switch. It's digital-only. There's no Switch cart. "Snake Pass is digital only," Sumo COO Paul Porter told Eurogamer, "and we have no issue keeping the price the same across all platforms digitally."