osed125 on 07 October 2013
| bananaking21 said: a publisher has to pay a retailers for physicial copies and steam/psn/xbl for digital true. but when it comes to physicial they also need to pay shipping and manufacturing as well. all in all for a 3rd party publisher a retail copy earns around 27$ for the publisher. a digital copy earns 42$ since steam/psn take 30% and they have no other costs. so the digital copy is around 50% more profitable. when it comes to first party (just add platform royalties and online store cuts to profits) a retail copy would profit around 34$ but online it would earn them the full 60$. there is a reason why sony, ms and nintendo are pushing so hard for digital sales. |
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Nintendo and PC gamer
