| Goatseye said: I have trouble reasoning and coming up with an answer for the same price tag between physical copy of a game and a digital one. And why does the price of games tend to stay higher in digital form for longer than physical form? ex:Modern Warfare 3 is still $59.00 on XBL and on Amazon it goes for $33.72 new free shipping. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Modern-Warfare-3/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802415608cb |
I always thought it was something to do with bulk ordering. When you buy in bulk (1000s of the same product) you will be given a discount in most businesses (wholesale price) compared to the singular purchase.
As this isn't done with digital copies - only 1 version is required to distribute to everyone - there's not as much margin for price reduction. In a lot of cases you may even find that at launch a physical copy can be as much as $10 less than the digital ones.
