heruamon said:
packaging for games is REALLY very expensive, and that's why many gripe about no savings from digital downloads to retail prices. Of course, stick drives are more costly than disc, BUT you can really decrease cost, if you mass produce them on the levels to support hundreds of millions shipped devices, and set them up for one-shot use, so people can't erase them and use it for something else...there are alot of ways to reduce cost for such devices, it's just a matter of having a reason to do so. |
Packaging costs are only around $1 per game (anyone can buy standard cases used by them for pennies) and DVD discs cost less than 10 cents for game companies. Manual is the most expensive part of the package (even very small manual), everything else cost pennies. So, it's not expensive at all. Although, there are other expenses which cost far more. For example shipping, retailers cut, taxes etc.
