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<blockquote data-quote="The Real Jdbye" data-source="post: 10305324" data-attributes="member: 248256"><p>Cheaper games would be great, sure, but I'm not sure this lawsuit holds much water.</p><p>Games are purposely priced the same on retail and digital, so that they are priced competitively with eachother. The 30% commission has little to do with the digital pricing. That argument works on PC, where physical copies have all but gone away and digital storefronts are only competing against other digital storefronts, it doesn't work so well on consoles where the pricing of physical copies also has to compete with the pricing of digital ones.</p><p>Moreover, that 30% commission is probably comparable to the cost of manufacturing and selling physical copies, and the logistics involved with that. So the pricing kinda works out in a way so that the developers/publishers receive roughly the same amount for each sale regardless of whether it's digital or retail. As a result, there is no need to inflate the price of digital copies, and it keeps publishers/devs happy.</p><p>If digital copies were cheaper, physical copies would also have to be made cheaper in order to still be competitive, that would be bad for the devs/publishers as they would be making very little profit on physical copies sold.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Real Jdbye, post: 10305324, member: 248256"] Cheaper games would be great, sure, but I'm not sure this lawsuit holds much water. Games are purposely priced the same on retail and digital, so that they are priced competitively with eachother. The 30% commission has little to do with the digital pricing. That argument works on PC, where physical copies have all but gone away and digital storefronts are only competing against other digital storefronts, it doesn't work so well on consoles where the pricing of physical copies also has to compete with the pricing of digital ones. Moreover, that 30% commission is probably comparable to the cost of manufacturing and selling physical copies, and the logistics involved with that. So the pricing kinda works out in a way so that the developers/publishers receive roughly the same amount for each sale regardless of whether it's digital or retail. As a result, there is no need to inflate the price of digital copies, and it keeps publishers/devs happy. If digital copies were cheaper, physical copies would also have to be made cheaper in order to still be competitive, that would be bad for the devs/publishers as they would be making very little profit on physical copies sold. [/QUOTE]
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