Game discs cheaper than digital versions, what gives?

[Stevieg77]

A little annoyed that I can buy a disc version of Hogwarts legacy for R1099, but the digital version on the PS store is R1250. How do they justify this? The fact that one can buy a disc version, and then resell it later for a small loss, just makes so much more sense than buying a digital version for convenience sake. Really puzzled at this. Can anyone enlighten me?

 

[moedeez]

Why Aren't Digital Games Cheaper Than Physical Ones?

Common sense suggests that digital games should cost less than their physical counterparts, yet they don't.

www.howtogeek.com

When you buy a physical game disc, it doesn’t cost the platform provider anything for it to sit on your shelf. New digital games partially subsidize the upkeep of older games that may not be selling as much anymore. If you want indefinite access to download your digital games, then someone needs to pay for the system to make it possible.

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Basically Logistics.

 

[Scrooloose]

Digital editions cost money to distribute through cache providers and distribution channels.

A physical copy costs the producer nothing once it leaves the manufacturing facility, it sits rent free on a shelf at BT Games or wherever else.

 

[Stevieg77]

Thanks guys, it does make more sense now. Guess a physical copy it will be then. Tough times at the moment, so have to save where we can.

 

[Scrooloose]

You call tough times but you're about to drop R1100 on a game.

Doesn't seem so tough at all then.

 

[J37]

Thanks guys, it does make more sense now. Guess a physical copy it will be then. Tough times at the moment, so have to save where we can.

 

[Stevieg77]

You call tough times but you're about to drop R1100 on a game.

Doesn't seem so tough at all then.

One of the few guilty pleasures, don't judge!

 

[crackOlicious]

And yet physical copies usually just kick off a digital download process anyway

 

[dalion619]

A little annoyed that I can buy a disc version of Hogwarts legacy for R1099, but the digital version on the PS store is R1250. How do they justify this?

Pay to play. It's easier to change your account/device region than get the physical version from a cheaper region.
It's not Disney+ where people pay the SA price then bitch because they got the SA version.

The fact that one can buy a disc version, and then resell it later for a small loss, just makes so much more sense than buying a digital version for convenience sake.

Kinda like buying the cheaper digital version of the console so you have no choice of a disc version.

Why Aren't Digital Games Cheaper Than Physical Ones?

Common sense suggests that digital games should cost less than their physical counterparts, yet they don't.

www.howtogeek.com

When you buy a physical game disc, it doesn’t cost the platform provider anything for it to sit on your shelf. New digital games partially subsidize the upkeep of older games that may not be selling as much anymore. If you want indefinite access to download your digital games, then someone needs to pay for the system to make it possible.

Basically Logistics.

Access to the platform isn't free, the publisher has paid for the platform provider to distribute. Indefinite access to download your digital game until that console generation is EOL.
That article misses a lot of things like how Nintendo doesn't really drop the price of their physically versions, it actually goes up.

If digital storefronts from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo undercut retailers by a large margin, those same retailers may choose not to stock physical games at all.

Why would Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo undercut themselves...

Digital editions cost money to distribute through cache providers and distribution channels.

A physical copy costs the producer nothing once it leaves the manufacturing facility, it sits rent free on a shelf at BT Games or wherever else.

Each time the physical version ends up back at the pre-played shelf at BT Games, the cost is a lost sale to the device maker.

www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/946581/000162828017005833/ex10-48.htm

 

[Artilugo]

A little annoyed that I can buy a disc version of Hogwarts legacy for R1099, but the digital version on the PS store is R1250. How do they justify this? The fact that one can buy a disc version, and then resell it later for a small loss, just makes so much more sense than buying a digital version for convenience sake. Really puzzled at this. Can anyone enlighten me?

Its called Digital sales tax, of which ANC is about top 3 worst governments in the world for this. Look at ps store in US and UK and see the price difference. Basically 'dogital sales' are taxed in the country, coupled with a weaking rand

 

[WurminatorZA]

One of the few guilty pleasures, don't judge!

You wouldn't download a car would you!