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V-r0cK on 23 March 2019
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abronn627 said:
V-r0cK said:
I never understood that, do people actually go to retail stores to buy digital codes for a specific game? Wouldn't buying a PSN card just do the same thing anyways?

I’ll give you some  contexts where buyers might want to use retail code.

They have games to trade and the game they want isn’t available in store, they can buy the digital code if they want to use the credit immediately.

The game they want is 80$, but in Canada, PSN cards are in the 20$ and 50$ range, they don’t want to buy for 90$ in cards and have a 10$ extra in their PSN, they rather buy the exact price.

This is not common, but it’s an example of situations where it might occur. 

Seeing as we're both Canadians so this would be easier to relate :) 

I never bought a retail game code in store but would you have to pay taxes?  You buy the physical game in store you'd have to pay taxes.  I dont think we pay taxes when buying on PSN.

If the game they want is $80, can always buy 4 $20 PSN cards, whereas your $90 example is 3 PSN cards of 1 $50 and 2 $20.  

Also I've seen these in Canada all over where Sony has $80 gift cards with a game on the card as advertisement.  So that $80 is just $80 PSN credit, but can be used to buy that new game that just released and on shown on the card, or you can use that $80 for whatever you want.  So again, I dont see the big deal.