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Ka-pi96 said:
Barkley said:

Huh? Why are you blaming Sony/MS for the price Activision set? It's not "their" price.

There are reasons thrown around for why many digital titles are priced so highly, but in the end it boils down to... enough people are willing to pay it.

Activision set the same RRP for physical retailers. But they're all like "nah mate, we gotta sell it lower than that to beat Amazon, Game, Tesco etc". Sony/MS couldn't care less about that because they haven't got any digital competition. So yeah, I'm blaming Sony/MS, they are the retailer in this case...

I'm not sure what I'm reading here.  You want Microsoft and Sony to take away the ability of publishers and developers to set their own price?

This isn't retail.  The publisher doesn't sell a set number of digital copies to the platform holder, who then has to get rid of them at their own discretion or have them taking up inventory space or sitting on their ledgers at the end of the year.