European sales numbers on VGC are often incomplete, especially for games released before 2007.

There will be a retail release in Europe.

Child of Light is an incomplete (the final dungeon got cut) 10 hour game that rides on its Grandia-inspired battle system and doesn't offer much else. Captain Toad clocks in at around 14 hours, doesn't feel repetitive and is very polished. Nintendo's game may cost 25 Euro more than Ubisoft's, but it's the better buy because it's the more varied and complete product.

With this new Kirby game we already have a good idea of what to expect because there was a similar DS game. Plenty of collectibles and several playable characters should bring the title to a 100% completion time of around 15 hours, making the whole thing very comparable to Captain Toad. If you don't like it, don't buy it. But I for one don't think that people are getting ripped off here.

At retail the big publishers mostly charge $60 because they're selling games like AC Unity which regardless of what you think of it has a team of 100s of people working over 2-3 years. Their budget releases normally skip retail and are sold directly through the PSN store etc, but this doesn't mean that they're not comparable.  Not sure how much it was in the US but Child of Light was 12 pounds here in the UK, the whole point of these smallers games is that they're made by much smaller teams and have a much shorter developement cycle- that is reflected in its price. Now I don't know the specifics of this game but going on what I've seen it looks like it was made by a few dozen people over 12-16months- which is very comparable to a large scale indie title. 

You're just spewing out of your ass now. You admit in your last line that you don't know the specifics of the game and you don't know how many people are working on it and you don't know how long it's taken them to make. How can you say all of the things that you've said here and earlier just off of pure speculation?

You're just spewing out of your ass now. You admit in your last line that you don't know the specifics of the game and you don't know how many people are working on it and you don't know how long it's taken them to make. How can you say all of the things that you've said here and earlier just off of pure speculation? Nintendo is charging $40. Nintendo knows that they probably could charge $60 and make a similar amount of money because it uses a character that people recognize/adore and it has the word Nintendo on it (which is all that a lot of people need to buy a product from them), but they decided not to. Kudos to them for lowering the price on Captain Toad, Mario Party 10, and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse. They certainly didn't need to.

Time to leave this thread me thinks, you were confused at how someone could think $40 is overpriced for a retail game like this, I've offered you my logic. I don't think theres anything more to be said.

I don't know, you've got yourself in kind of an unfavorable spot in this thread.

Yes, you initially said you will take your statement back if the game features an 8+ hours length (playing through normally, not going for 100% completion), but then it came to all kinds of comparisons that just don't look good for you. For example, none of the games you mentioned is longer than Captain Toad.

I will say this: You aren't the type of guy to go into threads and hate everything Nintendo does, but this thread devolved because some people jumped on you and your responses weren't the best you could do. It's not as big of a deal as it looks, so there's no real harm here. Might take some time until everyone realizes it though.

Eh, Nintendo's most overpriced Wii U game was The Wind Waker HD, so neither this or Captain Toad are that bad.