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

[Bofferbrauer2]

Ka-pi96 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

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.

Yeah, they get their platform royalty for physical games. But I'd assume if they're both the platform holder and the retailer (for digital games) they'd get both that and the usual retailer cut.

As far as I know that's not the case. Like I said, it's quite possible that they take a bigger cut in the digital sales, but it's not enough to negate the additional income from not having to share with a retailer.