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Nuvendil on 10 September 2017
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NoCtiS_NoX said:
Nautilus said:

Im not being a hipocrite, nor most of the users defending Nintendo are.We all never said that cartriges arrnt more expensive.They are.The point I am trying to make, that Nuvendil explains well, is that the 10 dollars jump is not justified.The price jump to produce a 32 GB cart is more or less between 3 to 5 dollars(And thats what Zhuge is getting at, also pointed out at Nuvendil post.An increase, but not an 10 dollars increase).If the game had a 5 dollars bump due to that, then I would be fine eith it.But thats not the case.THATS what me and many users are complaining about.

No, Zhuge is quite clear why they are pricing it that way. read it on the link provided and tell me where Zhuge said it? He is not disputing the $10 increase he is actually explaining why.
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/906056377679925248 


Is this really a case of 3rd party being greedy? Or They are not just willing to eat the cost or small profit margin is not really acceptable for them. These Publisher is still running a business here.  Maybe this is the price Nintendo has to pay for choosing the medium they are using for Swtich. 

It is justified in that there are costs to recoup.  And in LA Noire's case, since they priced it so low, a larger percent of profits lost.  But it is not some one to one.  It went up by $10 because that's the increment by which it always goes up, for thus it was spoken and thus it shall forever remain.  A $5 price increase would be a much more justifiable increase.  They went with 10 out of habit and cause it grabs a bit extra.  

And none of this address Puyo Puyo Tetris or Rime which are $10 more as well with no justificstion being on 2GB and 8 GB carts respectively.  And that's assuming Rime on Switch is the same file size as PS4.  It's small enough that it could almost squeeze into a 4 GB cart.  And those fly in the face of Sonic Forces which is in a similar situation but no price hike.  And NBA 2K is at least on a 16 GB, maybe a 32 GB (we'll see), and no price hike.  And Skyrim has to be at least on a 16 GB cart, same launch price as the Special Edition.  If it was a serious hit, hikes should at least be consistent.