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

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bonzobanana said:

SegataSanshiro said:

This is speculation. Pretty sure the company Nintendo partnered with worked with them so keep costs way down. The cost for a Blu Ray pressed is 2 dollars. A MASK Rom costs $2.50. So this is not a huge leap over Blu Ray cost. More expensive yes,but not by much. Again people seem to think Carts of 1996 and it's issues apply to ones made in 2017. For the most part not the case anymore.

Those figures are clearly completely wrong. Here in the UK you have retail budget blu-rays that sell for £1. Yes they are terrible movies but they still have to be duplicated so cost can't be any more than about 30c to make.

That they are sold now for £1 doesn't prove that the production costs weren't higher. Were they priced £1 to begin with or are stores/publishers trying to cut their losses and want to free their precious shelf space?