Is this a joke? Or serious? 

The public said YES!

And this is not the only chart it topped but it's the biggest market.

Depressing chart position for The World Ends with You, the franchise is over

They wouldn't be if they had gamers willing to pay more. Plus, most of those 10 year old games don't have HD texture packs as well as a bunch of QoL features added with the relaunch.

If a company starts off with a premium price model that doesn't hardly diminish and its fans approve of it, it isn't their fault if other companies have to charge so little to sell after time has passed. If it was a problem, then consumers wouldn't buy the games and Nintendo would start lowering prices. The fact that they still does this tells us it isn't a problem and people just need to get over it.

While the game is inherently niche, it doesn't help that Square-Enix barely marketed it, they didn't even show it at their E3 presentation, it wouldn't have hurt them to take a few of the 20 minutes they used to show Guardians of the Galaxy to promote TWEWY. A marketing deal with Nintendo would've been a good idea too (like how Nintendo promoted Octopath Traveler and the Dragon Quest games), though I guess that would've been possible only if the game was exclusive to the Switch.

OT: People are willing to pay full price for Nintendo games.

Because as often the case people reward mediocrity and want the same shit over and over. Neo The World Ends With You is better than some of games on that list and feels very fresh. Def better than SS. People rarely want imaginative and new. They want more of the same as always.

agreed

Of course, I also agree it's not Nintendo faults third parties lose their value fast, and neither I should think they should lower their profit prices albeit I would be happy if they choose to do. But this condescending tone Nintendo stans use to diminish third party games value (as it they were somewhat linked to lack of lasting quality) is quite annoying

Nintendo does not lower the prices no matter how much their software is selling. Is anybody talking about Arms? Astral Chain? DK Tropical Freeze? Captain Toad? Xenoblade 2? Mario Tennis Ace? All those games stopped selling for sometime and still are not getting discounted. They won't get discounted, because this goes against Nintendo software strategy

Third parties are using mass market strategy (lower prices, many paid content, bigger but treacheous userbase, impulse-buy), while Nintendo is using premium price strategy (fewer DLC, fewer paid content, full prices, small but loyal fandom). Nintendo can afford it, they have many famous IPs, a loyal fandom, many good in-house development teams and overall their games are less costly to develop meaning they break even faster. I guess only MS and Sony could compete on premium price strategy, but well MS software has been deemed are uneventful, while Sony is trying to change it making their 1st party more and more compelling but were overall dirty cheap on PS4, guess this gonna change on PS5 now their IPs are stronger

I think the problem is Enix tried to sell it like a Nintendo game, but isn't really like a Nintendo game. The original game still full price after all those years, a DS game I must to point out, a hardware that used to struggle to run N64 games. If you have a 15 years old game with no sequel and make the said game not-accessible (i.e. expensive, released only on DS and Switch) it's hard to build a enduring appeal and a steady fanbase

And yeah I agree the market was pretty bad. I'm all for all games to be released in as much system as possible but PS4 version flopped really hard on Famitsu, the original game was never released on Playstation and mostly likely the people who played the original on DS went for Switch