Well since Nintendo's bad quality games retain there pricing models just as well as Nintendo's good quality games then quality clearly is not the only factor here, is it?

You were using quality as a differeniator from other publishers, not only as a reason for higher prices. The whole reason for my disagreement with you is that 1. In Nintendo's catalog, quality of the game had no impact to its pricing and 2. There's no quality bar that Nintendo is held to that other major publishers aren't. I know we disagree on 2,  but if you believe that they are many more factors outside of quality of game for Nintendo's higher than average prices, then we agree.

But you can't apply the first paragraph to Nintendo, they don't work like that. Nobody is buying a Nintendo system to play lesser ports of old third party games, they're buying them for Nintendo games. A Nintendo gamer is going to pay whatever Nintendo wants to charge for their games because they don't have a choice. Somoene can own an Xbox and get plenty of value out of it without ever touching a Microsoft game, same goes for Playstation. If you own a Nintendo console and you don't buy any Nintendo games you bought what is very nearly an expensive paper weight.

The question being posed in the thread isn't "Does Nintendo make good games?" It's "Why do Nintendo games stay so expensive?"

Oh that Doom guy.

But...  Wii U games are not selling anymore..

I mean, in the last week the Wii U sold only 86,000 units. That is 10 times less than the X1, and 27 times less than the PS4.  

Why isnt Nintendo lowering the price for those?

nintendo games are not average they are all time masterpieces thats why their expensive
they have replay value thats it

Nintendo don't lower the price to retailers unless the SKU changes (select), so the only way retailers drop the price is if they're willing to take a hit to shift stagnant stock, and because the retailer has little room to move on retail price, the used masket retains a high price too since sellers can get away with it (still full retail new).

That is the only reason why.

Nintendo not budging on the retail price has nothing to do with the quality of the title being sold either, the same goes for their digitally delivered games, that they themselves have full control over the pricing of.

To quote:

“We believe download versions have the same value and should be priced the same,” Iwata said.

“Some companies price downloads cheaper due to the there being no used sales or store price reductions. We stress the value of Nintendo software, so we price the same.”

Nintendo believe that they do not need to lower the price of their games, even when they arent footing the bill of manufacture and distribution of a physical copy, where they are receiving the full retail cost for the title (and not the slightly discounted value they receive in selling a game through a retailer), so in effect Nintendo makes more money out of its fans for digital than it does for physical, so the chance that Nintendo would be willing to take a higher loss on physical retail games is near zero, thus contributing to the artifical retail price hold and the high price on used market.

Used games are also expensive.

Sorry but that just goes against everything you have said in this thread.  

I mean, you said "Nintendo games can stay expensive and sell well for so long because they are more valuable than anybody else's games to begin with."

so...  how come WiiU owners got tired so quickly? It is not like they've already moved on to the Switch.  I mean, even if we assume that every single WiiU owner is gonna buy a Switch eventually, that only means that 7m people haven't done it yet. How come these people are not seeing the value of such high quality games?

I mean, we have games like ZWW, DKTF, Yoshi, Captain Toad, Hyrule, Pikmin, Bayonetta and Xenoblade, etc., (which are all universally acclaimed) and yet none of them have even reached the 2m mark yet. That can only means that 11 million people didn't see the value in them to go out of their ways to buy them.

Oh! and just as a side note: According to VGC WiiU owners bought an average of 6.49 games.  That is way below the average of 11 games that PS360 owners bought.

I think its a mix of quality and Nintendo keeps their prices high at retailers.