Commentary: Zelda: Skyward Sword HD costs $10 more on the Nintendo Switch than it did on the Wii.

When The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword launched for the Nintendo Wii back in 2011, the motion-controlled adventure was priced at $49.99.

This week, Nintendo announced a remastered version of the game for the Switch: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, priced at $59.99, adding a dollar to the price tag for every year that's passed since the original game's release. .

Skyward Sword, a 10-year-old Wii game, is more expensive than it was when it first came out a decade ago -- and it's going to stay expensive, because first-party Nintendo Switch games almost never get price drops.

It's just following our lead -- because as much as we'd like to pay less for the Nintendo Switch versions of reissued Wii U games, we don't.

And the game is still a top seller: It's still the fifth-best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch eShop and to this day is Amazon's ninth-best-selling Nintendo Switch game. .

Nintendo has cultivated an expectation of expensive games, and even though we don't like it, we've come to accept it

Consumers have spoken with their wallets, and Nintendo has heard us loud and clear: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is worth $59.99, despite being a port of a decade-old Wii game that originally sold for $10 less