I have a really hard time understanding why a game should lose its value just because it is old.
We don't see people complaining when the blu-ray for 2001 a space odyssey is the same price as the one for Interstellar.
By always reducing the price of games, the industry is making itself a disservice, it undervalue the experience of a game just because it is old.
I'm sorry but it is just plain true that some old games are WAY better that current ones, why they should be cheaper ?
While i agree that nowadays asking 60$ for a platformer may be much, it won't stay at that price for long.
Nintendo is just doing what is best for the franchise, starting at what is the real value and then optimizing to get the maximum price for each customers.
By doing that they don't destroy the value these new customer will attach to the franchise.
Most customers for that game are probably going to new ones, why should they get a discount over the 2014 customers.
When or if they release a new Donkey Kong, these people will attach the value they payed back then to the franchise and not a artificially low one because they paid for a port.
They should have priced it the same price at the 2014 release but they didn't, surely because they calculated that these new customers could pay more.
I fully expect the price to go down fast once they think all the new customers to the franchise bought a copy.
People like me who already own it on wiiU will wait patiently and buy it when it's not 60$.