[ALL] Opinion: Digital games are priced too high.

[PP]

PSN/XBL have to start providing digital games for lower prices. There is no incentive to purchase a game for 59.99 digitally besides being a lazy POS.

Discuss..

 

[jms493]

PSN/XBL have to start providing digital games for lower prices. There is no incentive to purchase a game for 59.99 digitally besides being a lazy POS.

Discuss..

Until B&M retails sales of these games plummet SONY/MS can not cut the prices. They would be cutting off hand that feeds them (BB, Walmart, Target, JewStop).

Steam can do it because nobody sells PC games. Well the stores do but sales figures I am sure are tiny.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I think a friend of mine still had WWE 13 when I went to find it, and I was going to download it online until I noticed the $40 price tag. This was a week before 2K14 was scheduled to be released. The game itself went below $40 on Amazon and other retailers before 2012 ended.

But, as JMS said, right now, they can't undercut the companies selling the physical copies. Maybe when we move to an all-digital platform, that might be in the cards, but not right now. They're also doing it because there are some people who are lazy and won't check and just buy it digitally.

Steam can do it, because PC is over on a large digital platform anyway. Go into Best Buy or Game Stop and there is a shelf, if that, for PC games. Outside of the mainstream games like COD, Battlefield, Mass Effect and Assassin's Creed, it's going to be tough to find the game you want.

 

[MrBill]

It is the way of the future but as others have mentioned, I don't think we see any change in digital price until physical copies are less popular.

 

[SethMode]

PSN/XBL have to start providing digital games for lower prices. There is no incentive to purchase a game for 59.99 digitally besides being a lazy POS.

Discuss..

There is at least one incentive very important to me to pay $59.99, and it has nothing to do with laziness: it keeps shit out of my house.

I have 250+ games on my Steam account. I probably have 20-30 digital games on my 360, and probably 20 digital games on my PS3. If I had 300 physical copies of games taking up space, I would kill myself.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

There is at least one incentive very important to me to pay $59.99, and it has nothing to do with laziness: it keeps shit out of my house.

I have 250+ games on my Steam account. I probably have 20-30 digital games on my 360, and probably 20 digital games on my PS3. If I had 300 physical copies of games taking up space, I would kill myself.

I condensed all of my PS2 games and started on my 360 games and put them into a CD binder. I know the binder costs more, but having the physical copy is important for me. If I get a bunch of games when certain deals or sales are going on, then I basically recoup that money. The debate goes down to physical vs digital though, and I come out that I want to own the physical copy, as far as games are concerned.

 

[SethMode]

I condensed all of my PS2 games and started on my 360 games and put them into a CD binder. I know the binder costs more, but having the physical copy is important for me. If I get a bunch of games when certain deals or sales are going on, then I basically recoup that money. The debate goes down to physical vs digital though, and I come out that I want to own the physical copy, as far as games are concerned.

I used to be like that, and then one day I kind of snapped and got rid of most of my books, all of my movies and most of my physical game copies. Everything that I physically own I use once or twice and then never touch again. Games get a little more distance because it takes me longer to beat a game than to watch a movie or read a book, but at this point I NEVER go back and play old shit, so it was just taking up much needed space. I considered the binder option briefly, but then remembered the two binders full of PC games that I "had" to keep at the time, which hasn't been opened since then.

It's definitely physical vs. digital, but I do consider it a strong incentive for myself to go with digital options.

 

[Hitman]

Can't trade in/sell/give away a digital copy of a game. I'll take physical, thanks.

 

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[iamstr8fire]

I buy digital versions of games that I won't ever trade or will have a very low trade in value once I am totally done with them (Madden/The Last of Us/Grand Theft Auto/Battlefield). Anything else is physical.

 

[Twigg4075]

With my internet data cap buying digital versions of games is doubly bullshit. The only advantage it gave me on PS3 was that I could download two versions, one for both my wife and I. So basically getting two copies of Battlefield or CoD for $60 was worth it. Not to mention being able to download the PS4 versions for only $10 more (suck it M$ and your shitty trade in program). But now that you're only able to dowmload one copy on PS4, and I assume XBone, there is zero incentive for me to go digital.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Twigg brings up another point. Data caps could ruin this option for the future, if the gaming companies really want to push it. I won't be surprised if data caps come up as a large issue again in a few years.

 

[Primetime]

I'm a lazy piece of shit that just wants to tell my xbox to play a certain game.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I'm a lazy piece of shit that just wants to tell my xbox to play a certain game.

Meanwhile, my Kinect is acting as a bookend for my Blu Ray collection :smug:

 

[Primetime]

Meanwhile, my Kinect is acting as a bookend for my Blu Ray collection :smug:

Did you try it out or are you just against it totally?

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Did you try it out or are you just against it totally?

I wouldn't say I'm against the idea, just didn't feel like setting it up and having it sit there in front of the TV distracting me. All I'm really interested in is gaming, not all of the bells and whistles that the XB1 does to make it a "multimedia machine." If not for the group of people I've played with for years (some of who I work with, or have worked with) I probably wouldn't have gotten one.

 

[Primetime]

Fair enough.

I'm interested in the added experience it gives you when it comes to gaming as well as how much time it saves. I don't get too much time to play, especially during the week, so it's a big positive for me. I don't notice it in my tv stand. I'll notice it more once I build everything into the wall instead of having a stand. Setting it up takes less than 5 minutes btw.