| Ka-pi96 said: Shouldn`t it be $3-$5 less? No need to produce discs or ship them means less costs for Amazon/the publisher, so why should they charge more for it when they are already keeping a higher % of it as profit? Edit: Oh and this is a good thing. That `price parity` argument was always bullshit, Sony/MS were just taking advantage of their monopoly to jack up the prices. If other places can not only sell content from their digital stores but also compete on price then that`s a very good thing for the customers. |
I was trying to be understanding.
If amazon, sells you a physical game, you still in most cases have to pay for shipping. Or in some cases shipping is free. But lets leave it at a baseline where you pay for shipping. And that shipping will cost an additional $5.
Now selling you a digital code, means that sony's/MS's servers still handle your download, so its only fair that what should have been a shipping charge goes to their server cost. Hence the $3-$5 premium.
And yes, this is a good thing, but i think if sony and MS refuse to match such discounts then at least amazon should start giving the option to get a digital copy if you choose to for any game you buy from their store. This way, when amazon discounts a game, that discounted price carries over to the digital copy too.
