Part of this pricing discrepancy seems to come down to the game's relative age on each platform. Steam's frequent sales can exacerbate the differences, too: De Blob is currently $30 on Switch but just $6.59 on Steam-down from a PC list price of $20. The 2016 Doom reboot runs $60 on Switch and $20 on Steam. Payday 2, for example, costs $50 on the Switch compared to just $10 on Steam.

That said, the price discrepancy for the remainder of the Switch's PC ports can be quite large. In fact, a majority of titles listed on both platforms (55.8 percent) sell for the exact same price on both, and an additional 8.9 percent are cheaper on Nintendo's eShop. That average obscures a wide range of price discrepancies, of course, including some that end up in the Switch's favor.

Their analysis found that, of 471 games being sold on both Steam and Switch, the downloadable Switch versions cost just over 10 percent more on average. The folks over at Switch blog Switcher decided to quantify how much that 'Switch tax' costs while building their own database of Switch games. However, some Switch players have started to notice that those ports often come at a pricing premium when purchased on Nintendo's console.

NintendoAfter initially struggling to attract wider support from third-party developers, the Switch library is now absolutely filled with ports of big-budget and indie games available on other platforms.

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