Digital future is slow to transition and digital customers have to suffer.

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KylieDog said:

Steam is not a platform, it is a storefront and DRM system.  PC is a platform and it features several different stores, Steam, Origin, GoG etc.  That is where competition and thus lower digital prices on digital PC games come from.

None of these are comparable to PSN or XBL.  There is the PSN Store on PS4, nothing else.  XBL store on Xbone, nothing else.  This will never change.  There will never be competition on those systems.

If retail was keeping prices high then digital only games on PSN/XBL would cost less because no retail excuse.  They don't, they still cost more than a retail version would have.

Steam is a "Platform". - A Software platform, It's more than a storefront and DRM system.
Keep in mind, Steam has been around for a long time, long before it ever had competition as it was the first of it's kind that had any kind of remote popularity, prices havent actually shifted since it gained more potent competition from the likes of Origin and uPlay.

And sorry, I have to disagree after seeing publishers blame retailers for the need for high prices/price matching when the Australian commission made enquiries into the higher prices, that I am more inclined to beleive than someone on the internet that hasn't provided factual evidence to back something up.