Sometimes it is.
For instance I got animal crossing on the switch digitally.
In store it was a full 10 dollars more. I know because my husband got the physical copy and so laughed it cost 10 dollars more.
I find its the other way around. Physical copies go on sales because distributors want to get rid of their stock to make room for something else. Thats never a problem w digital.
I find its the other way around. Physical copies go on sale because distributors want to get rid of their stock to make room for something else. Thats never a problem w digital.
With physical copies retailers buy the disks and resell them. With digital copies the digital storefront doesn’t buy copies and resell them, they let the dev/publisher list the item and take a cut of every sale. Different beasts.
Physical copies tend to net the retailer about 25% profit.
For the first 10 million dollars in sales steam takes 30% of the profits and then drops it to 25% after that.
Even if we assume they make more profit off of digital goods than physical, they can’t have it sold for different base prices like that. Doing so would piss off the retailers. They’d see it as them being cheated, they buy a bunch of discs and then the company that sold them the discs goes and gives their customers a cheaper alternative to get the same content? They’d stop buying from them, or at minimum buy less and advertise other people’s products more, or in the case of more partnership style deals they might sue
For instance I got animal crossing on the switch digitally.
In store it was a full 10 dollars more. I know because my husband got the physical copy and so laughed it cost 10 dollars more.
Physical copies tend to net the retailer about 25% profit.
For the first 10 million dollars in sales steam takes 30% of the profits and then drops it to 25% after that.
Even if we assume they make more profit off of digital goods than physical, they can’t have it sold for different base prices like that. Doing so would piss off the retailers. They’d see it as them being cheated, they buy a bunch of discs and then the company that sold them the discs goes and gives their customers a cheaper alternative to get the same content? They’d stop buying from them, or at minimum buy less and advertise other people’s products more, or in the case of more partnership style deals they might sue