Its even more sad that people with that mentality refuse to acknowledge their pitfalls. 

Why do you think Mario Party 10 is still $37 on Amazon? Pure quality, mate.

depends on what you're referring to- if you're talking NEW games for current gen systems and the fact that, say, a Mario Kart or Pokemon game will stay roughly the same price (for a new copy) for the majority of their active lifetimes (when their hardware is current)- it's due to Nintendo just being aggressive and not dropping the prices of stock for retailers at any point. Nintendo realizes that people who buy their systems, whether early in a lifecycle or late, are going to universally generally want to get the big first party games (Pokemon and Mario). So they don't NEED to lower the prices on software, the games will sell regardless

if you're talking about long term why Nintendo first party games as a whole seem to retain their value so much better than most others- it's due to them having a gigantic nostalgic fanbase. Mario Kart or Zelda on the Nintendo 64 remain quite expensive to buy complete because they have unusually rabid fanbases in the Nintendo corner. Nintendo also, as you all well know, has a tendency to do things their own way. So the majority of past generations there has been something about the games, hardware, software as a whole- that makes them often more appealing to collect for.  Whether it's because people enjoy cartridges/physical media, or some unique spin (mini discs for the Gamecube). 

Really the reasons Nintendo games tend to remain high in price, whether new or vintage games we're talking, in the end is due to the big N having the most rabid fanbase in the industry who are constantly willing to pay a premium for their titles.  

I will admit it is weird to see Horizon Zero Dawn randomly drop to like $30 sometimes on Amazon, and then to basically never see Breath of the Wild under $50 (new), despite them releasing at the same period of time. But it all comes down to Nintendo feeling comfortable with not lowering prices because sales will maintain for the most part. With software it works, sometimes hardware not so much (some would obviously argue Nintendo should have lowered the price of the Wii U). 

I don't think its weird..... sony sold the game at full price to over 2M people, then at $40 or so to at least another 1M people, then to God knows how many more people at less than that. Thats a good return on tehir investment especially when you consider that they have a ton of third parties paying them royalties.

If anything, I have an issue with why digital games cost the same thing with physical copies... though I understand why that is.... still bugs me to all hell and back though.

That is exactly what makes your comment so mindblowing.  If you look to the switch total software sales it are all nintendo games while Sony/MS are almost full with third party games. People who buy a Nintendo console buy more first party games than they do when they buy a Sony/MS console.

WTF are you talking about? That has nothing to do with what I am saying.

I am fully aware that people that buy nintendo consoles buy it for nintendo software, hell even EA is backing off the switch right now as they did with the WiiU.

This argument here is about why the nintendo games holds their prices for as long as they do. The real reason to that is simply nintendo seeing to it that it stays at that price. But some on in this thread will have you believe that its because you find the best games in the world  on nintendo hardware and their price stays that way because every other game on other platforms whose prices drops do so because they lack the "quality" of nintendo games.

If you can't see how ignorant and ridiculous a statement like that is then I won't know what to say to you either.

Nintendo doesn't lower prices for their games and when they do it's only a 10 or 20 dollar cut

I read somewhere that Nintendo pays a special delivery security fee to prevent the prices from being dropped by retailers.

I'm sure i didn't say that right, but it is something like that.

hell.. it is re-usable DLC for 12$ (ish what they cost here converted) that is also a figurine.. i have them mostly for the figurine part but sometimes they do something cool in a game :)

Don't know what more I can say, you know that people buy nintendo consoles for first party, you know the sales and see they sell well, you can check metacritic and see they have recently two of the best rated games in years it would not make any sense to drop the price. Their aren't many games who do the same, the only one I can think of is Minecraft except for a free trial in its early beta release it never got a price drop and never was on sale on PSN/Eshop/PC/xbox live.