Why i buy Physical games.

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Nem said:

garretslarrity said:

What you say is not incorrect, but it does not tell the whole story.  As the Ubisoft representative recently said, publishers intentionally reduce the price of retail copies so they sell out in stores.  Therefore, the retailers are willing to make larger orders when the next game comes out.  Digital copies should cost less than physical copies, because there is no disc, manual, box, boxart, shipping costs, and most importantly, no retailer's cut.  Publishers are giving in to retailer's demands, and it's hurting gamers.

Err.. no. The retailer cut goes instead to the digital store owner. So, thats not going away either way, except for first party games.

So, its shiping costs for physical goods. Not a bae deal when digital can be switched off at any time.

In the case of the consoles, the digital store owner is the console manufacturer, who the publishers already pay royalties to.  Now I'm sure that they do pay for using the console's digital store, but it has to be less than console royalties + retailer's cut.  And then again we have shipping and manufacturing.