why the hell do first party nintendo games stay expensive for so long?

[theRepublic]

ameratsu said:

All i'm going to say is that I own several Wii games, but only one of them is first party. I still play the other games, but Nintendo's reluctance to drop their prices simply means they haven't got any of my money since I bought my Wii, period. I understand that I am not their target consumer anymore but I do not think this is okay behaviour. At least when Sony is on top, they reduce the prices of their games after they sell so many copies, or after a certain period of time.

Metroid Trilogy? They discontinued that while stock lasted and for some reason did not rerelease it as a $20-$30 game. Completely unacceptable to me.

Metroid Prime Trilogy was a limited collector's edition.  It was announced as such.  There was zero surprise there.