Can somebody breakdown the $60 price tag for a game and explain why in most cases physical copies are the same price as digital ones?

[AnthonyW86]

Goatseye said:

AnthonyW86 said:

kowenicki said:

 

yes, its illegal.

I don't think so. They are just not going to offer new games cheaper digitaly than the retail copy's because they know retailers would go insane. It's pretty much the same with going digital, like with the PSP go.

What are you trying to say is that consumers are not getting better deals because publishers don't want a quarrel with the retailers. And they're purposely keeping the digital prices up so them and the retailers can profit.

"Price fixing is a conspiracy between business competitors to set their prices to buy or sell goods or services at a certain price point. This benefits all businesses or individuals that are on the same side of the market and involved in the conspiracy, as prices are either set high, stabilized, discounted, or fixed."- Free Advice: Law.

-http://business-law.freeadvice.com/business-law/trade_regulation/price_fixing.htm

Retailers and publishers are not competitors. Price fixing would be if Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft would sit down and agree to not sell their next gen consoles under $600, or to increase royalty's on software together so publishers don't have a choice but to pay them.