What about Octopath makes it high-end? Quality of art and sprites? Neither of those disqualify it from being called low fidelity. I think Octopath is worth $60 because I'll pay just about anything for high quality JRPGs. That said, it's not a hard argument to make that it should be priced differently. Much like I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear, it should have been priced differently from an $60 game.

I don't see how this helps your argument. Game is beautiful, but it's clearly not pushing any boundaries. They went with style over fidelity. That's ok. At full price, it's going to be compared to other $60 games, regardless of length.

With all of the discount programs and opportunities out there, this seems like bad business.

As I said, for me it is not worth it. But many people obviously like it. And that's fine in my opinion. the price is worth it, because these people have fun with the game. And that's all that matters really.

According to whom exactly?

It offers well into the 50+ hour mark of content and the gameplay, story, music and so on are universally noted as good to high quality, compared to its competition it holds up very well. The whole handheld blah blah excuse is worn out and flawed news flash for anyone using that old chestnut handhelds are consoles on the go now this isn't the GB days.

No development cost don't matter they mean bugger all to what we enjoy in a game they can make them for free for all we care if they content is good then it's worth the price we pay. The Order cost a tonne of money to make it has nowhere near the same value as many cheaper to develop games, the fact that someone is trying to push development costs as a factor of value is downright shocking as those costs mean nothing in determining enjoyment of any game.

I hate this conversation. It’s always done from a consumer’s perspective and never takes regard for risk or how the employees who worked on the games are paid.

On top of that, it hurts me as a fanboy to see people being stingy with the games we love. If it’s a great experience, I don’t see why it wouldn’t warrant a higher price just because the producer didn’t pay as much in to the game.

That is just about the worst comparison I've ever heard of. A small inexperienced team of 5 could make Wolfenstein 3D in a matter of months. Even CoD from last gen would take a team of 100 several years to complete. 

Those retro style graphics do take work. I wasn't saying that the retro style didn't take work to accomplish. I'm saying that adding in lighting, shadows, specularmaps, and particle effects can be done by one guy in a week or two tops. For many of those things it literally is just a matter of clicking a single button in-engine. Compare that to one guy spending an entire year straining his eyes to make sure his ten character models are rigged, animated, bumpmapped, retopologized, unwrapped, and textured. Now imagine that there are 20 other people just like him working on characters of their own. 

There simply is no comparison between the work that goes into a game like Mario Kart 8, and Octopath. If you think it's worth $60 that's fine. I'm not about to argue that it isn't, because I still want to play it before I ultimately make up my mind. The problem I have is that you think the amount of work put into Octopath is the same amount of work put into AAA titles. 

You cannot believe this to be true? Please say you don't convince yourself that everyone who doesn't buy an item doesn't buy it because they don't have the cash for it?

So let's say when you buy a house you don't care if they used the most garbage material or top notch, the price should be the same and companies should suck as much profit as possible from you and you wouldn't care as long as you like the house itself?

So much contradiction in your comment.

If you think risk and cost should be considered (to not be only customer perspective) then you can't at the same side say the price it is sold at should reflect that effort, risk and cost.

Strawman argument because your argument here hinges on the quality of materials used to build a house when in fact the actual scenario is you buy a house that was built with materials that weren't from top expensive brands but are still of good quality resulting in a house that still stands up to other houses. In that scenario the cost to build it doesn't matter because the quality still matches any other product out there.