yeah...no. THey will just let is sit on the Eshop or whatever for whatever price.They still sell COD MW3, freaking MW for full price on XB and Sony's shops. the big publishers, the greedy bastards will keep their prices high as they want to, and they might do some weekly sales nonsense to appease the masses and go right back to having the price high. I cant see how this is better than having straight retail option as if a game isnt selling in the store, you could bet your ass, they are going to try to get rid of it by lowering the price. Hell they do it for consoles, if they dont think its selling. THis is way is NOT better. No way. Having only digital on consoles suck, dont see why we cant have both, like every other damn form of entertainment, in the world does.

Its like people have stuck their head in the trash bin or jabbed out their own eyes.

Or we're just guessing, as are you about my eyes.

I dont need to guess, i can go to the PSN right now and see that games are in fact NOT cheaper, not even close to their retail counterparts and imagine its the same thing for XBL. BUt for your sake i hope your guesses are true

I don't think MS and Sony know that digital copies of games shouldn't cost as much as a retail copy. So that is a slight issue I have with digital distribution future of games. If they go this route look no further than Steam to see who is doing it right.

Right. But is it up to Sony and Microsoft to set the price of Digital games for 3rd party? Serious question

They dont know? Well they we are all in much bigger trouble than i thought. I know it shouldnt cost that much you know, anyone with a shred of common sense knows that. Maybe i could be older and more cynical but i have no faith whatsoever that they will ever do it "right" 

Oh the right way would to have the option of having digital AND physical. Like everyone else does.

I agree!

When publishers report a loss, they're reporting a loss based on what they expected the game to sell at and it didn't meet those standards. Usually the game in question didn't lose any money, but to the publishers, the game did.  My assumption is that the publishers are handing out bonuses before the game proves its worth on store shelves.  These developers and publishers want more than they deserve. Hell, they already get more than they deserve. Bobby Kotick made over $60 million in 2012. Several people in EA make over a million a year.   If these publishers are losing money, they it's because they pay their higher ups way too much with these imaginary bonuses, etc.

Maybe developers and publishers should follow some advice from a line on The Devil's Rejects. "I set my standards low so I'm never disappointed." Don't expect every game you release to sell millions of copies, because who knows if you'll even sell half a million.

When it really comes down to it, we (Gamers) can type at forums or twitter till our fingers bleed. But we "speak" or "vote" with our money.

So I will speak to this companies by not buying a console that is a DRM box. I will not buy games that require an always online connection (Simcity). And in the future if every console and every game is always online, I'll stop gaming and find a new hobby.

I am not anti Developer/Publisher/Console Maker, but I am anti fuck-the-consumer.