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SpokenTruth said:
Aeolus451 said:

"According to Eurogamer, Switch cards come in a wide range of capacities - 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB - and as you might imagine, the larger the size, the more the card costs to physically make."

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/03/heres_why_nintendo_switch_games_cost_more_than_those_for_other_consoles

Here's is the article he was referring to. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-10-why-nintendo-switch-games-are-ending-up-more-expensive

At least I have some sort of source on this. Most on here are just lowballing the costs to $2 to 3 instead of the full difference because they rather try to paint 3rd party devs as being greedy so they jacked up the price for profit increases instead of the asisinine format just making the games cost more. 

http://www.trendforce.com/price/flash

Contract pricing for 32 Gb NAND flash is $2.80.  Even if a Blu-ray manufacturing cost $0.00, that's still not a $10 different and right in line with my $2-$3 difference. And that's with a 7.28% increase from 2 weeks ago.

Each Blu-ray disc cost ~$0.10. Do you really think a Blu-ray movie cost $5-$10 more to manufacture than a DVD movie?

From what I understand and what I could look up, NS game cards are custom proprietary flash media so the prices of typical mass produced NAND flash cards are not really comparible to it.  

I expected blu-ray discs costed more than regular dvds by a fair bit when they first hit the market. Aren't blue-ray and regular dvd movies cheaper now?