Ubisoft reveals profit margins for physical versus digital sales on console

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RolStoppable said:

shikamaru317 said:

I kind of feel bad for buying physical games at $20 now. If I'm reading that right, the publisher only gets $3 on a $20 physical sale, versus $13 on a $20 digital sale. No wonder the publishers are pushing digital so hard. 

That's exactly what industry figures want you to believe. They want you to pity the publishers they are working for. Similar things happened with used games that were supposedly bad for the video game industry while every other industry is fine with its second hand market.

The second hand market for other media is dissappearing even faster than for games. For music and movies, you don't even own the media at all. You subscribe to a service that provides them.

So I'd say it's a bit misleading, every other industry was fine with its second hand market, but that second hand market doesn't exist any more for other entertainment mediums.