K_Beckman said:
Maybe you can clarify what you mean here because I'm drawing a blank as to what your point is. The Go will still have to compete with other systems regardless of how and where the games are sold. |
He's saying that digital downloadable games don't have as many reasons to receive price cuts than retail games do, thus there won't be as many. The proof of this is the current three DD services offered on the consoles and the general lack of price cuts. Also clearancing out items will never happen because they don't take up physical space and can't be overordered by retailers. Plus a lot of early sales on games are done by the retailers themselves and not the publishers, so they can get customers into the store and/or to clear stock, and you lose out on that going DD only.
Exambles, Best Buy is offering Need for Speed Shift for $40 and Microcenter is offering Beatles Rock Band for $40. They are doing this to attract business, and are likely losing money on each copy sold. If these titles were available digitally, they would not benefit from this and would be $60.
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