Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition Metascore Prediction - 92 Meta and 92,32% GR

[Ganoncrotch]

psychicscubadiver said:

Ganoncrotch said:

In handhelds I much rather Digital because of wanting to have all the software in the unit without having to change carts while on the go or risk losing any of them if I'm outside.

I love Physical for my home systems, got shelves of games all over the place here as a testament to that, but say on the Vita I have over 200 titles which are digital just because of how easy it was to download them from psn in comparison to find a store which stocked new Vita titles here in Ireland. But on the Switch I mean... if there was any sort of partity between the cost Digitally and Physically I would get it Digitally how I want it and Nintendo could happily not have to worry about pre owned software, but €15 is too big a gap imo for what should be a cheaper option buying it from the Eshop

In case I'm not clear

Physical copy costs 45

Digital is 60

No way that should be the case when you compare, manufacturing costs, transport, storage, sales staff in game shop, all of that is cut out with the Digital version, but it's still that much more expensive. How is that justified?

This would be a guess, but I suspect it is a matter of stock.

The physical store paid x amount for the game, but wants a return on its investment. The game, however, requires self space and must be listed as an asset for taxes and the like. If sales for that game are slow enough, a retailer might be willing to reduce the price to where they make little profit or even lose some money, because it is more of a drain to keep it on their selves than to recoup at least some of what they spent.

The digital on the other hand takes up no physical space within the limited confines of a store and each 'copy' is not considered a taxable asset. So long as the developers are satisfied at its selling rate there is no need to lower the price. And a high baseline digital price can compel more people to purchase a game once it goes 'on sale' and becomes cheaper than normal.

But what you are pointing out here is again that retail copies of the game have more overhead which does not exist for the eshop variant. That overhead would.... Should play a part in making the retail copy of the game a higher cost.

And yeah I know obviously if there is a box of games burning up warehouse space in the back of a gamestop they have a reason to what to move it ASAP to get that shelf space back for stock that they can sell faster, but I'm talking about the launch price of Lego City UnderCover being €15 more at the Eshop that at Retail, not months down the line when it has been there taking up space, just staight out the gate was available for €45, it actually put me off buying the game since the disparity between two version of the same game was so much, I just figure I'll enjoy Zelda and wait for the Digital version to come down in price to match the physical copy or else if it comes up much cheaper than €45 at retail even if it's a used copy I'll buy it that way, This scenario should not have happened if the eshop version was in line with the retail cost, they would have gotten a digital copy sold Day one which would have no chance of entering the preowned market ever.

With Mario Kart the stores here are offering the physical game for €5 less than the Eshop version, so at that low a difference I'm just going to get the eshop copy because I want it on my SD card for my holiday and I know I'll never be wanting to trade in MK8D at any point. Still though... confusing and somewhat annoying that it's paying more for effectively less... a lot less.