I don't now how often I read that on the internet:

"PC games are way cheaper than consoles", "with how much you save with pc games you are way cheaper in the long run with a pc"

but is that correct? (I also talk about playstation network, I don't know how that is on the xbox or wiiu so feel free to tell me about it (regarding the price of games))

I won't use any comparisons (except for the playstation plus abo) because that can go both ways with look this game is cheaper on pc but but this game here is cheaper on console I don't want to go round in circles.

PC games: Steam sales are great and a good way to get games but if you want to wait for them you can do the same on consoles and wait for the game price to go lower before you buy it. Like consoles it is a difference if you go digital or physical (the times I look around physical games for pc are more expensive than digital. So yeah a great platform with many opportunities to save money if you want.

Console games: If you go physical it is a little bit more expensive but if you want to you can also buy all games digital and save a few €s. You can sell your games again after you played them, heck I got all my money back from media markt for games I didn't like so imagine if I would have liked and played them over the weekend I would got all those games for free^^ (I know you can't do that to often but still). All in all you have again on this platform great ways to save money, you just have to do it.

even Playstation plus isn't that bad:

A 3 month abo saved me 5€, got 2 games for free, that cost 20€ on steam so thanks god for console games being cheaper I guess (no of course not).

Conclusion:

You can't really say what is cheaper in general, everyone has to decide for himself how much money he spends for his hobby. Can you wait for the Gaben sales? Yes you can, you can also wait for console sales (got myself more and more games for 5€, 3€  2€ you can't really go lower than that) and in the end You find games for both platforms being cheaper than on the other.

Questions:

Do you agree, disagree and why?

How much money do you spend for games? (pc, consoles or both if you have them)

I think there is a big distinction in price between a buying a new game and a game that is 1 year old for instance. New games are obviously more expensive. And I do think that Steam sales can't compare to regular prices in shops. Also Steam sales don't always put brand new games on sale.

I have a PS4 and a PC, regarding now-gen systems. I usually buy games for the PC, since they are cheaper, regardless of buying a physical or digital.
New games are just much cheaper for the PC, than for consoles. I live in Denmark, where a new console game costs around 71$, and a pc game around 57$, if you buy it physical copy. But buying a digital copy, you can go much cheaper for the PC. For instance I bought a GoG key for The Witcher 3 for PC for 14$! If you just go to Ebay or Google whatever game you want, you can buy legal keys, for a fraction of the normal price.

I actually hate spending 70$ on a game for console, knowing that i can get it cheaper for PC. And of course the crazy cheap steam sales drives your mentally priced games down: When you know you can get a game for 5$ on steam sales, that makes it a baseline.

I usually spend around 80-100$ a year on games.

I bought Metal gear Solid 5 for PS4 for 35$, as a 'used game', from a private person, yet the game was not used at all.

I mean it all depends on the perspective.

But what I think is completely non-logical, is that digital prices for new games, regardless of platform, are priced exactly the same as physical copies. They are digital, and therefore should be cheaper...

Some gamers (like me) might buy 60-100 games a year. Others might buy less than five. The price difference may mean more to some then others.

Personally, I'm a console gamer. Always have been. Always will be. Even if PC games were a dollar, I wouldn't go that route.

Most new games on Steam, on day one, cost me around 50 euros, same goes for GOG that I use a lot. Console games here are 600SEK retail and digital while 50 euros is roughly 470SEK in today's exchange, that's almost 25% difference in price on day one and the difference is even bigger down the line and prices tend to go down faster on PC title as well.
Console games cost more, pure and simple, I bought a bunch of Platinum releases for my PS3 when I bought it, but they were still 15£ at the cheapest (ordered from England), which was about 160-170NOK (lived in Norway then) while bargain bin or digital sales PC titles of similar caliber were easily in the 10€ category, making them essentially almost half price, some could even be as cheap as 5€.

Whether or not something is worth it though, is up to each gamer to decide. And with all that said; I rarely buy games day one since I don't think it's worth it in most cases.
Even if prices were the exact same for software as well, I'd still be a PC gamer simply because I prefer it in every way.

For new games, they're the same. For older games, it depends on the sales.

Just checked the price of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - $59.99 on PS4 at GameStop and PSN but $60.95 on Steam.
The Witcher 3 is AU$89.99 on GoG but $77.00 at EbGames.

This is one of those gaming facts you just have to accept. no matter how you wanna spin it. buying games on PC is always going to be cheaper than buying games on consoles. The reasoning for this is indisputable.

Consoles have a centralized market structure. EVERYONE answers to the platform holder. As long as royalties goes to the platform holder there will always be anywhere between $5-$15 more tacked on to the potential price of a game. Sale or not. The only way around the platform holder is the used game market.

With PCs, you have a lot of vendors selling games directly to the consumer. with little to no royalties markup. And in addition to that, they are in competition with each other. which only translates in lower prices and faster price drops.

On the consoles, you have the game store selling the physical games and the digital store. Even with novelties like amazon selling digital copies of PS4 games, all you are getting is a digital code that takes you right back to the PSN.

This is why prices don't drop nearly as fast on consoles. especially looking at digital sales. so game prices between PC and consoles?

No contest.

Good lord, Basil zero!!

You say there is no contest just to say that it's going to take longer for games on consoles to lower the price? So to get the games on consoles for the same price as pc you just have to wait longer?

I see it is really indisputable with no contest^^

So you agree with me?

I 'm beginning to fucking loathe this obsession with pricing. It already destroyed this gen by giving us the weakest hardware imaginable, just because people don't want to spend a little bit more on a one time fee for a whole generation.