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?

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aikohualda said:

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...

Books are nothing like videogames, though.  Books don't take up 25 GB of data, and they don't take 3 or 4 hours to downloade even with relatively high-speed broadband.  Books also don't cost upwards of $100- 150 million dollars to produce.  It's apples and oranges.

And people are already complaining about it, it's just that in my opinion, many people are whiners with a really short-term memory.  As I said, games in the '90's cost $1 million or less to make, and were sold at far higher prices compared to the value of that same amount of money today.  I wasn't 25 in the '90's, but I sure don't remember this whacky state of mind where people were up in arms about spending $60 for a video game.