Fire Emblem Warriors is $20 More on Switch..for....Reasons?

I was recently engaged in a heated debate that morphed into personal attacks on Twitter for asking one simple question.  "Why does the Switch version cost $20 more?" The answers I received were disturbingly uneducated.  The most prevalent response that I received was "Console games are always 60 and handheld games are always 40. That is the way that it has always been."  While this excuse is convenient for the Nintendo fanboys among us, it makes 0 sense from a consumer advocacy standpoint.

The game on Switch is technically different than the one on 3DS.  I will now list the differences that I can find.  1) It has HD assets. (The joke is that the list is small and that there is only one difference.)

Now I could be wrong about this, and I will eat my hat if I am, but I cannot find any other differences between the 3DS game and the Switch version.

Another excuse that I received as to why it was ok for the Switch version to be more expensive was because the 3DS version will probably run like "shit" and that you are paying for the better performance.  Without too much effort, It is easy to find the holes in the logic used above.  Is it now ok for Nintendo to make games that aren't $60 run badly on purpose so you upgrade to the newest hardware and buy the more expensive software?  I don't think that they are going to so self-sabotage their own product to make the $60 product have more value.  If they did, in fact, do that, there would be many a class action lawsuit that would follow.

The final notable reason that I got for the price hike was that the hardware that it took to make the Switch cartridge is more expensive than the 3DS.  While at the time I thought that this could be a valid point, I then realized that the cost of flash memory is expensive across the board right now, and any extra cost incurred by the Switch cartridge manufacturing process would also be incurred by the 3DS cartridge making process.

The fact of the matter is, Nintendo is charging $60 for the Switch version because they know that they can and they know that their loyal fanbase will attack anyone that questions it.  I think that is wrong on so many levels and I urge you to ask questions like this on a daily basis to question the things you love to make sure that they continue to be of a high quality.

Well, what is the solution to this, what would make me happy in this situation?  I think that Nintendo should include some extra content in the Switch version in order to have something to point to and say, "Look, this is the reason that it costs more on the Switch!"  It doesn't even have to be that big of a thing.  Maybe some sort of extra game type.  Maybe some kind of motion control gimmick (that they like to throw into games for no reason.  cough cough Skyrim cough).  I'm not sure what exactly they could do, but something small would make a huge difference.  Let your Switch owners know that they have the definitive edition of the game and that they shouldn't have buyer's remorse because the experience they got wouldn't have been as robust if they would have gone with the 3DS version.