VGhippy said:
baloofarsan said:
I do not have a gaming PC so I do not use Steam. I hear the argument that Steam is cheaper a lot. When I check the new games are as much as on Amazon and the old are as cheap as in the budget-bin in the store. What am I missing?
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It's a good question, and the answer is slightly convoluted but here goes. Steam is basically a launcher for games you have access to. It also has a store attached called the Steam store which normally has fantastic Summer and Winter sales. However you don't actually have to buy games from the Steam store to launch them in Steam you just need to buy a steam key which are sold from various other online store like GreenManGaming, or from Humble indie Bundles which have their own sales on all the time. So anything I guy in GMG's top 50 sale here http://www.greenmangaming.com/50-games-1-10/ would be added to my steam launcher as if I had bought it from the Steam store via the key I would receive.
So I can pre-order Alien Isolation for Steam from there with their 20% off code for £25 rather than the £45 it would cost me on amazon for the PS4 version for example.
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But you can resell/trade the PS4 game, but the £25 you put into a digital code, youre never going to see again.
On consoles, I could buy a game on release play it and trade it and keep doing that with atleast 6-8 games over the length of a year before the game I'm left with is no longer worth much.
Even if you take a game like FIFA, they sell for a good £25 (on PS4/X1) privately which means after playing it the whole year , youve only spent £20 (£45-£25). I dont think youre going to get a digital code near launch for that price.
