The initial excuse for current-gen pricing was development costs, which was generally accepted. And now come games like MKW with long development times, it almost makes you wonder if they're charging $\$10$ for every year it took to make

Value is subjective, perceived differently by consumers and publishers. Not every game is going to be this expensive. Nintendo's justification for the higher price point typically emphasizes the game's intrinsic value considering the amount of content and depth of experience.

This is the correct and obvious answer.

Zero NEED for it to be $80. They'd make billions in profit on this game at $60. But after the success of the Switch and never needing to discount hardware nor software, Nintendo is extremely cocky and greedy and think they can charge any crazy price next gen. Hence all the crazy HW and SW prices for Switch 2. I'm hoping the consumers prove them wrong and they end up in a less extreme 3DS type situation by next year and have to drop prices on everything which would be a win for everybody. Consumers need to bring Nintendo back to reality.

Obviously because Nintendo is a business and only cares about money at the end of the day.

Same. He's fucking over the global economy with his petty and stupid tariffs, which he really is only doing because of his unbelievably small penis.

He only wants tariffs to be reciprocal, I don't think that is unreasonable. It will create momentary uncertainty, but deals will be done.

As for his penis, given that he has sired multiple children, it seems to be in the range of normal function.

Personally I do think larger development budgets are a legitimate reason to charge more for a game.
But it's not always apparent to the average consumer how the development cost of one game differs from another.

Well that's clearly not working out when 1.) other countries raise tarriffs on the U.S. in return, because 2.) a trade deficit can never be equal when one country is 100 times richer than another and has the means to import 100 times more than the average worker from Bangladesh, and 3.) all of these extra costs are passed on to the consumer, as always.

His lie about "reciprocal" tariffs has been debunked as soon as his government revealed the stupid equation they used to determine the tariffs. Trump supporters are professional reality deniers.

I think you may be wrong ....  I could totally believe he is compensating for a tiny package.

I'm very glad I didn't vote for either clown this term.

Well, after playing Donkey Kong Bananza, I can safely say Donkey Kong Bananza has more content than Mario Kart World for $10 less, so the price for Mario Kart World is less reasonable.