You're right.  Nintendo has no control over what games cost on THEIR system.  They are perfect angels.  /s

-Super Paper Mario sold 3.5m and still sells for $20 on Amazon.

-Resistance: Fall of Man sold 4.23m and sells for $15 or $30 for all 3 games in the series.

Resistance scored slightly higher on metacritic and SPM can be found for FREE on PC emulators.  It's common knowledge that Nintendo has an elitest mentality towards what its games are worth.  That's all I am saying.  

Feel free to agree with me or not but either way one of these things are true:

1) Nintendo lives in a dreamland where it thinks games on their consoles are objectively the best games ever and don't lose much value over time.

2) Nintendo has little control over how games are priced on their console.  They are incompetant and have way below par relatiobships with the people they do business with.

Take your pick.

3) Nintendo respects the decisions of the people who price the game. Why the fuck should they be held responsible for this when they don't choose the prices? Get over yourself.

You're a bit ignorant you know,  because if you'd bothered to try a 5-second Google search, you'd have known developers/publishers choose their own pricepoints on Nintendo's systems. (As Baddman and HylianSwordsman before me pointed out) they get to freely decide when to do sales and for how long, and can offer their game(s) at whatever price they desire. If you deem this particular game too expensive at $20, then you should blame Nordic Games, as they publish it and set its price. They could have offered it for $5, but they chose $20. That's their decision, not Nintendo's. Nintendo decides about games like Paper Mario because they're 1st party games THEY themselves developed/published. Not so for 3rd party games (like Darksiders 2 in this case).

It looks fantastic, but I'm curious, how big a deal would missing the first game be? Will the story be hard to follow if I haven't played the first game?