L.A. Noire will cost more on Switch than Ps4 and Xbox One

[SvennoJ]

Louie said:

SvennoJ said:

You're comparing the price of 3 games to one single game. Switch version is only Afterbirth plus. If you click on Bundle info you can see how much afterbirth plus is alone. (That link automatically turns it into CAD prices for me, I get CAD 11 for Afterbirth plus)

However the ps4 version is listed as the same price as the Switch version here, both CAD 55.

But perhaps I'm not getting what all the different versions are. Maybe Afterbirth and Afterbirth plus are DLC, and although the Switch version is just called afterbirth plus, it is all those 3 things? That seems to make more sense, confusing naming. So it's 40 vs 55 here.

Disregard my confusion. I've only played the very first one and got bored with it pretty quickly. Never tried the other(s)

Well, the way Steam makes it look you have to buy Rebirth and then the two DLC's seperately. So Afterbirth+ is just the DLC and not the main game. And yeah, the Switch version includes all the content from Rebirth, Afterbirth and Afterbirth+. 

Yeah, I get it now. However I doubt the game exceeds the smallest available Switch card size, 1GB. It's only 610 MB on the eShop. So perhaps at that size the difference between card and blu-ray is small enough to eat the extra costs of the card, hence same priced PS4 and Switch version.
LA Noire needs 32x the capacity, more expensive card, most likely a much bigger difference than between single and dual layer blu-ray disks. It might still fit on a single layer blu-ray as well, first game stayed just under 25GB to save on the disc price. 360 version came on 3 DVDs. Although if it includes the DLC I guess it will have to be a dual layer disc.

Ofcourse it's up to the publisher to either eat the extra cost, or raise the price and risk fewer sales. Which will generate more profit over all.