Yes, there are a lot of costs and benefit differences between digital and physical. And even whether something is a cost or a benefit can be quite subjective. For example, most people like having a physical artifact to go with their purchase, but for me, a disc and case is something I have to find storage space for. A few games isn't an issue, but several dozen games and hundreds of discs full of music and video... and I want to just put everything on a few disc drives and throw the rest away.
I'd say your 25% reduction is value is a good estimate, and that's about how much publishers are going to have to cut game prices to drive adoption of digital services over brick and mortar.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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