In UK new digital games on PSN are actually more expensive then what you will find in shops £50-£55. Its cray!

The reason y I buy digital for pc and not consoles is due to generations. With pc, I can buy a game and know that it will work throughout my pc upgrades. But on consoles, it will only work in that generation for the most part.

And of course, pc has other benefits like cheaper launch prices for most games through places like greenman gaming.

But to answer ur questions... 1) Doubt it 2) I think Sony tax is higher than valve tax (dont quote me tho) 3) I dont really buy digital titles on psn ever. Almost every week I see someone at neogaf have an issue with their credit card on psn or account in psn getting hacked. As a consumer, that doesn't give me much faith

The cold truth is that digital prices stay higher for longer because there is no overriding factor constantly pushing them down.

In retail, prices drop because inventory size and display space are major, major concerns. They stress over it on an unending basis. Somewhere like Walmart hates keeping inventory that doesn't move and they hate shelf space being taken up for sluggish products. They'd rather mark non-sellers below cost and get them out the door.

Digital has to deal with none of that. It only has to go down when the publisher says, "okay, we've sold all we're going to sell at this price, let's drop it a little." Or, if they want, they can leave it at a high price forever. They aren't being compelled by other factors.

So, from a business standpoint, our perception that digital should be lower is totally backwards.

Kind of funny, kinda not.

Exactly this. It was the same with video rentals. 3 new movies for $10 for 3 days or a week, turned into $7 per movie for 24 hours at much lower streaming quality. You can buy blu-rays for $5 to $10 after a while, digital prices remain high. And that's with competition that doesn't even exist for digital video games.

Without retail video games, new and used, competing, digital prices are more likely to go up...

In the US the price are the same at launch and the games get sales like deals with gold and PSN sales.

never, you pay to a monopoly if you havent realized

Do you realize that Retail PC games are also segnificantley cheaper than any Deal on Steam if a physical copy exist? 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/268050/

https://www.amazon.de/Evil-Within-100-%25-Uncut/dp/B00CM78DB2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472580564&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Evil+Within+pc

We are talking about digital here. :P

Not always.
There have been many games which have been priced with the full Australian tax here at retail... Yet Steam didn't have the Australian tax applied, the end result was a saving of $40 or more.

You can use www.steamprices.com to keep track of the price movements and even compare regions.

Then you need to account for players like Amazon, Green Man Gaming, Gamersgate, Plethora of key sites and more that also resell Steam keys.

Need to learn to read. lol. Saw you use the word retailers, and drifted off into adhd land.

They will keep them high for as long as people keep paying them. On the whole, consumers aren't able to control themselves, even when they know it would benefit them in the long run. This is why you see day one sales on games where everyone knows it's shipping incomplete and there will be an "all DLC" included version a year later. People are too weak willed.

Digital is a consumers nightmare... but it's a nightmare most people are creating themselves.