Part of my new year's resolution was to play more of my backlog and impulse buy less games, and keeping a log of all the games I buy, it really made me realize that Nintendo games are the only ones I pay full price for. Before I would have just grabbed Yoshi without even thinking about it, but now I'm really having to weigh the value of buying a 5 hour platformer for $60 that, while I'm sure I'll enjoy it, is probably not going to be a game I'm constantly replaying and deep diving into.
After the disaster that was the MAR10 sale, I understand just how hungry people are for discounted first party Nintendo titles; I already had NSMBU + NSLU for Wii U so the Switch version had no real value for me at full price, but it suddenly dropped to $40 and I made sure to grab it at midnight; I couldn't possibly anticipate though how quickly stores ran out of the deal because people were practically tramping over each other to get Mario on the (relatively) cheap.
Especially with these dry spells of first party software in H1, I really can't see Yoshi's price dropping anytime soon. It's too bad because it looks like a cute and fun game, but I'm trying to be more conscious of my spending and adding to my backlog now. Even a 20 dollar drop would probably get me to snag it; Resident Evil 2 went on sale for that and I got it immediately and I'm having a blast with it, but it wasn't a day 1 buy for me and I'm glad I waited.