In short: Nintendo is perceived to make the best games for Nintendo consoles, so there’s not too much competition from third parties. The answer is probably that people tend to buy Nintendo consoles for first-party Nintendo games, with third-party titles an added bonus. If people are still paying £45 for Breath of the Wild three years after release, then why would Nintendo bother with a price cut? You don’t last as a company for over 130 years without knowing a thing or two about maximising profits.Ī better question is why this seems to be unique to Nintendo consoles when PlayStation and Xbox games plummet in price after a few months. The most basic answer to the question “why are Nintendo Switch games so expensive” is “because they can be”. Given the Switch has already outsold the GameCube by more than 2:1, that’s clearly not what’s going on here. As a GameCube veteran I can tell you that finding reasonably priced copies of Pikmin 2 and Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door proved impossible back in my student days…īut that was partly down to the fact that the GameCube wasn’t a huge seller, and stores understandably didn’t carry many copies of games that weren’t selling. If you find yourself asking why Switch games are so expensive, you’ve probably never owned a Nintendo console before.
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