Here we go again: Switch games cost more due to cartridges?

[bonzobanana]

Conina said:

bonzobanana said:
Cartridges also prevent heavy discounting which you see on other formats.

I just ordered the cartridges of "Steins;Gate Zero" and "Root Letter" for £17 (~ €20) each, the PS4 versions on Blu-rays are still higher priced:

• https://www.idealo.co.uk/mscat.html?q=root+letter
• https://www.idealo.co.uk/mscat.html?q=steins+gate+zero

I'm sure that supply and demand are much more important for the price setting (and later price reductions) than the production costs.

Due to the sparse selection so far, there is a high demand for new Switch titles and publishers are trying to take advantage of that. If many of the Switch buyers let them get away with the price increase, it won't change and Switch versions of multiplatform games will stay more expensive than the other versions.

For a second I thought those were Switch games. Vita is pretty much dead with some serious discounting. If Vita had sold 150 million with people rushing to buy every new game we would see games close to suggested retail price. Sadly Vita games won't sell now without heavy discounting it seems.