Wasn't the trilogy release actually cheaper than ME3 on Wii U?
But yeah I mean, it's certainly similar, it's just not quite the same. Especially because this is Dark Souls 1, and Dark Souls isn't a heavily story-based series where playing 3 before 1 or 2 would confuse the hell out of people.
It's still an extremely odd decision to launch them on the same day but I don't think it's as blatantly offensive as the Mass Effect situation was.
It's less the price and more the fact that there was a completely unexplained 5-month delay that will be capped off by a significantly higher-value re-release launching on the same day as the Switc version.
I mean, look at the situation. The Remaster is announced in a Direct, an Amiibo is announced at another Direct and everyone is hyped for one of the first major day-and-date 3rd party releases on Switch (now we've got to wait for Doom Eternal lol).
However, a few weeks before the release the Dark Souls Twitter posts "Dark Souls Remastered on Switch is delayed to Summer due to the winds of fate or some bullshit lol gg." The port goes almost completely silent until it's announced that it's both not coming out in the Summer and releasing in literally the most busy period of the year.
Then a week or so after that announcement Bandai Namco announces that not only is a Trilogy re-release coming to the two other main consoles but it's releasing on the
exact same day as the late Switch port of a remaster.
It's quite a shit show all around, really, and I'm honeslty beginning to doubt the idea that the delay was for some unforseen technical reason and not third parties yet again being stupid on Nintendo platforms.