This would only be the case if something took exactly the same lenght of time start to finish on 2 platforms, but obviously the 3DS and Wii-U versions of New Super Mario Brothers are all based on upgraded versions of the DS game and ideas, so it's not like a new game from the ground up on the later machines, as such sales of a game like this on a platform which is both portable and home console is eating a sale of the same game on that different platform in Nintendos eyes/wallets.

it is sort of questionable, as flashdrives are getting cheaper and cheaper as time passes.

And certainly it wouldn't logically equate to a $10 price change. maybe a few dollars.

Make no mistake, this is an exaggerated story. There is no possible way that the difference in production cost of physical media from discs to (essentially) DS carts would be justification in charging $10 more.

This is just balogney and an excuse some developers might be throwing out to justifiy why they are upcharging on the system. Make no mistake- any excuse people can try to convince you of as far as why they're charging more- they'll make it. Not shocking too, if they're making disc based versions of their games on 3 platforms (Xbox , Playstation, PC), then its pretty easy for them to then say "omg we're charging more because the other version is a pain for us to make (cartridges).

I don't buy it for a second. Again, it might be marginally more expensive. But this isn't a giant cartridge like back in the day. Small flashdrives are cheap asf to make these days and have been projected to become cheaper to manufacture than discs in not too long 

but again, a few minutes of research will indicate that flashdrives are marginally, if at all, more expensive at this point. They've become smaller and manufactured in higher amounts than ever before. 

Eurogamer vet's its sources.

When it has 5 differnt verifed sources all saying the same thing... theres basically no way its not true.

"unnamed sources" = we know them, trust them, wont say who.

"anonymous tips" = we have no idea who, but someone said such and such.

There is a differnce. Eurogamer are calling them "unnamed sources" (to us the listeners) (doesnt mean they dont know them).

So you shouldnt call it "anonymous tips" :p

Eurogamer wrote "we've heard that..." 

Would they phrase it like that if they have 5 different verifed sources for that claim?

Yes they would.

*edit: Not sure where I got "5" from... thought I saw it in the article... apparently it just says a few. My bad.

The numbers look small, but that whopping 50 cent increase represents a 25% increase in cost.

This is a meaningless usage of a percentage. The costs of producing a video game are much greater than the costs of production for the distribution medium. There are retail costs, licensing costs, and of course the costs of development. The final price of the game reflects all of this. 

I'm not trying to say its would be a 25% cost increase in the whole game, just in that particular line item. I don't even know if his numbers are right. Just trying to point out at that a 50 cent increase over 2 dollars seems small, but is actually a decently large percentage increase.

Get use to it. It was all a lie from day one. They were NEVER going to pass any savings on to us and they only said that to get people to buy into digital/streaming and to also give up a huge chunk of our consumer rights. These businessmen don't care about us. They want more for them and less for you. The idea that they can sell us an invisible "file" over the internet which we can never resell probably gives them all raging boners.

if we're gonna give Nintendo credit for motion controls even though those were done before, gotta give credit to playstation.  What you're suggesting is like saying virtual boy was the first VR system.