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aikohualda on 04 June 2013
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Screamapillar said:
aikohualda said:
Screamapillar said:
aikohualda said:
there will be a law soon about this....

remember the price tag for digital vs paperback books? they used to be the same.....
so it is a matter of months hopefully not years....


A law against a publisher selling a game for a price that they want to sell it at? 

Last I checked, gaming was a hobby, not a necessity.

Give me a break...

so reading dan brown is a necessity?

it could be an antitrust issue....


There is absolutely no merit to making a law to have the government control and regulate prices of videogames.  You can't run to the feds every time you have a minor complaint about something as ridiculous as "why does digital cost the same as retail?".

It costs the same, because if it was cheaper, it would completely undercut and destroy the physical games market.   Neither the game console manufactutuers, the publishers, or the retail partners are willing to do anything to undermine the physical games market.

Games are cheaper than ever, nowadays.  Many N64 games cost $59.99 back in 1999 and 2000.  $59.99 today would have been worth $81.68 back in 1999.  Game costs remain flat, while inflation continually goes up, and the purchasing power of the currency precipitously drops.  Not to mention that development costs have increased exponentially in the last ten years, and marketing costs have increased alongside that.

Games are cheaper than they've ever been, and for people to complain about it is the epitome of whining

true... but soon enough people will complain and it would be more noticeable probably next gen... like in 3ds....

i really believe it applies the same with the ebook business... initially they are priced the same esp by apple.... then now they have the anti trust case about pricing it the same with the physical copy... it is not whining...