VGPolyglot said: I believe (don't quote me on this) that it was the same situation for the PS1 and N64, with the N64 games being more expensive. |
An N64 Game Pak was a different, much more expensive technology, designed to be fast enough to alleviate the N64's RAM limitations. The Switch Game Card is essentially just a flash chip.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/venturebeat.com/2016/10/23/nintendo-switch-uses-cartridges-but-this-isnt-like-the-n64/amp/
As discussed there, MROM (Mask ROM) chips are not expensive. At all.
Goodness knows why devs are upping their prices to this level. With indies, it's probably because every dollar counts. Big time devs, it's simply because they can get away with it since people assume the Game Card is analogous to the N64 Game Pak or the SNES Cartridge.