Nuvendil said:
An N64 Game Pak was a different, much more expensive technology, designed to be fast enough to alleviate the N64's RAM limitations. The Switch Game Card is essentially just a flash chip. As discussed there, MROM (Mask ROM) chips are not expensive. At all. Goodness knows why devs are upping their prices to this level. With indies, it's probably because every dollar counts. Big time devs, it's simply because they can get away with it since people assume the Game Card is analogous to the N64 Game Pak or the SNES Cartridge. |
It's not the 3rd parties that are to be blamed here. NS cartridges are a proprietary media storage format owned by Nintendo, 3rd parties basically buy/license them from nintendo.
Nintendo is charging them outrageous prices and they are basically getting their money back from the consumers.
