Ubisoft reveals profit margins for physical versus digital sales on console

[flashfire926]

Ka-pi96 said:

flashfire926 said:

The reason  we see the same prices is because as of right now, Physical is still plays a huge roll. Look at retailers are pissed at xbox games pass, so much so that they decided to delist xbox consoles. 

Even though Gamestop is declining, it still has more than 4000 stores worldwide. If console makers allow lower prices for digital now, retailers will get extremely pissed and discourage people from buying said console, and even might stop stocking said console and games because everything is available cheaper in digital (like gameware did to xbox). After all, you cant buy the console itself digitally. And still need retailers to do that.

And needless to say, take out a huge chunk out of console and game sales. Give it two-three more years. Once brick-and-mortar shops fade to irrelevance, thing will DEFINETLY be cheaper in digital. Xbox Games Pass is just a small taste of what's to come.

So if that's the reason... why isn't Steam cheaper than physical? Physical games are practically irellevant for PC already, and Valve don't need to get retailers to stock their platform, you just download it off the internet. Yet Steam games aren't cheaper than physical PC games. I actually bought a brand new PC game physically last month because that was cheaper than buying it on Steam (or any other digital PC store)!

Well, doesn't Steam have like huge sales that makes a lot of games dirt cheap? Thats what I hear anyways.

Like I said in m first post: "Even if not many games launch at that price point, expect more frequent and deeper discounts, due to the publisher being more willing to take a hit in digital than physical."

I dont really know much about Steam, so correct me if I'm wrong.