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Soundwave on 11 May 2025
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TomaTito said:
Soundwave said:

Physical games can end up costing $15-$20+ per copy over a digital sale for a publisher. That means really a physical game should cost at least $15 more than a digital version of the game.
Soundwave said:

Physical games are just not feasible in the modern industry, when you can have a digital copy that is free of any shipping/packaging + retailer cut fee that alone right there is like $15 cheaper. 

I was going to say that digital games should be at least 15 cheaper than physical copies, based on what you first wrote. But then I saw you already brought that up later.

If digital games were actually 15 less, that would be okay, but it never happened. The digital publishers got all the extra profit. We, as customers, only got the convenience of having them digitally.

The consumer is the one that wants an item that cuts into the publisher's margin, they should pay for it, not the other way around. 

Digital is the standard today, physical is just a secondary format, for people who need that they should be prepared to pay $15-$20 more a pop or get only a Game Key card. Even in the case of a Game Key card and/or Blu-Ray disc games (PS5) ... there's still the added cost of shipping/packaging + retailer wanting a $8-$10 cut per game .

If onion rings at a restaurant cost significantly more than french fries at virtually any restaurant you pay more for the difference, the restaurant doesn't magically charge less for fries, that would just be dumb to expect any business to run itself that way.