For the same reason why Splatoon can decide which content to lock you out of, and only lets you play said content when Nintendo wants you to - while simultaneously getting away with it!

Nintendo actually releases $100+ games for $60 whereas others release $1-$30 games for $60 until the thirstiest gamers are satisfied.

User was banned for this post - cycycychris

I always saw it as Nintendo titles hold more value than a typical third party release. But ebay is always a good friend for cheap Nintendo game either way.

C’mon bro, most Nintendo games have indie level production values, even their biggest games aren’t even half as ambitious as games like RDR2, God of War, Horizon, Call of Duty, and countless more.

Nintendo just humiliated the AAA game industry by making the best ever open world game on 10yr old hardware.

They have the most successful racing, fighting, platforming, RPG games and the highest selling first party shooter.

High end graphics are easy to achieve. Timeless gameplay requires actual talent.

I still retain that if he price issues are such a big deal, that the third parties could exploit the heck out of it by taking over that niche.

But they don't. So either they are idiots, or the option isn't as lucrative as you all think.

You are talking like a fanboy. Nintendo didn't  humiliate anyone this past year. All these Game of the Year Awards were mostly PS4 games or multi-play with X1-PC so stop the delulu talk.

20 years from now, BoTW and Splatoon will be considered the greatest games from the 8th gen. The fact they could have been done on 7th gen hardware makes it even more impressive as is the fact 'open world' and 'shooter' aren't considered Nintendo's forte.

The "less competition" argument doesn't make sense to me when the Switch is outpacing PS4/Xbox One in terms of number of releases, when launches are aligned.

I remember Iwata saying one time, that he felt the strategy of lowering software prices could be dangerous, and for that reason he was concerned.

Because of this, he said depending on the software, prices should be lower out of the gate. He did this with Brain Age, which launched at less than $20.

The so-called "touch generations" line of games in Japan for the DS, also got priced much lower on day one. They needed to establish the value of the software right at the beginning, and never lower prices unless extremely necessary. I think this strategy has worked well for them.