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?

[MonstaMack]

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

Yes but back in 2000 you didn't have DLC. Now companys can withold content for DLC to make up that $22 difference in the long run.

But yeah I'm honestly surprised games haven't hit $70 MSRP or even $80.