There's pretty much only the few mega publishers left in the physical disk buniness but there's no excuses for this greedy behavier.
Can you give examples? I find that digital downloads are considerably cheaper, with EA games being the one exception.
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Considerably cheaper? you must live in the anti-matter universe. EA and Activision boosts their prices 2x for downloads.
I forgot about Activision, and I will have to concede that second example. But I am asking you to be more specific. Are you referring to all given platforms, or just the PC market? When I moved from console back to PC, the average price of games was halved. I'm certain that is attributable to digital downloads.
Ofcourse console games are more expensive because of license fees, when it comes to PC gaming it was said years ago that digital downloads would replace physical media and be cheaper but that has not been the case and I doubt it ever will be.
Undoubtedly, digital content could be cheaper. However, gaming has gotten cheaper in real terms. Old Sega games cost double the amount of today's prices and the games were considerably shorter, if I remember my Sega gaming days correctly. Back when Sega used to be much more of a household name - things do change.
In the UK, EA's physical and digital games are 1:1, not double. Or 1:0.5 with the sly use of a VPN to snatch games with US region locked prices.
I just got The Witcher and The Witcher 2 for about £4.50. I'd say that's pretty cheap.
Could you provide any examples? Unless you find an old copy of a game in a bargain bin somewhere, I don't think this happens. It's either the exact same price, or cheaper for digital.