My thoughs on game pricing, development costs, and microtransactions/paid DLC.

[Bofferbrauer2]

Ka-pi96 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

This is especially true with digital sales, where in case of console games the retailer's margin gets slashed entirely (in PC games, the retailer's margin gets replaced by Steam/GOG margin unless it's sold in their own shop).

You sure about that? Wouldn't Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo take a cut of PSN/XBL/e-shop sales? We've even have a few threads saying Sony's PSN revenue > Nintendo's total revenue, I really can't see how they could manage that without taking a cut of all digital PSN sales (in addition to their platform royalty).

They take that cut already on retail games, hence why I excluded PC games. That missing cut is also the reason why PC games are generally cheaper than console games, both in retail and digitally. However the size of he cut may vary between physical and digital versions of the same game on a same platform - but that's something only business insiders could really tell you about, not me.