Can't speak to The Cave in particular, but keeping digital prices up is a very deliberate industry effort to avoid undercutting the retailers they'll still be depending on for years to come. That, and the people willing to pay said prices even for digital copy.

eshop=expensive shop :O!!

The App Store or Steam Sales are able to do those prices due to the volume of purchases, they've reached an audience and a pricing sweet spot that their respective clientbase expects and will buy, so you adapt your software releases around that.

On consoles prices are similar to Steam's pre-sale value, they all have sales to entice people's purchases but I think the main difference here is the volume actually obtained in each electronic shop, it's still not big enough. Until the titles sold at a lower level obtain the same benefits as selling hundreds on the higher one, they will not equal those shops prices.

That's why there is a price difference. It's decided by the market, price and demand.

Although I agree with you that this is something they should pursue.

Someone lied to me

Still, $20 for a 6 years old game is a lot actually. So my point somewhat still stands...also screw video games prices in my country.

Theres often a disparity in price between consoles an iOS/Android. This is likely because no one would buy a 15$ iOS game because they have been spoiled by $1/Free content. $15 in this case would be the Regular Price of the game with iOS essentially being discounted right off the bat.

Also, third parties set their own prices, can initiate sales and drop the price of their content on the eShop if they want. That isn't Nintendo's decision.

They dropped the prices since the wii U launched, before it was out you could find plenty 3 to 4 years old games still at full price on the wii, but the ps3 and xbox360 did it too to a certain extand so it's ok I guess

OP is right, I think Super Metroid is 7 bucks, that's insane.

I was thinking this last night. Saw an indie game, a Genesis 3D game, and a Gameboy Color game all for the same price: $5.99. Their pricing systme sucks.

Thanks Obama.

Indeed. I wouldn't be the massive pirate I am today if their GB/GBA and pre N64 games were all $1-2.50.