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AAA games are still full price on Steam. There is no discount because you can't sell your used copy. What makes him think that games would somehow be cheaper on
by socialist_coder 13y ago
AAA games are still full price on Steam. There is no discount because you can't sell your used copy. What makes him think that games would somehow be cheaper on Xbox1 after you eliminate the used market? They won't be. The savings are not getting passed on to the consumers.
- moskie 13y agoBut I get the impression that AAA titles get reduced prices quicker on Steam than their physical versions do. Is that not the case?
- pfraze 13y agoIsn't that more a matter of retailer choice? Valve may just be faster to react to their current demand.
- wmf 13y agoAAA games go from $60 to $30 to $7.50 over time on Steam; that hasn't happened as much for disc-based games. Maybe it will on Xbox One but I'm skeptical.
- maemilius 13y ago>that hasn't happened as much for disc-based games This is EXACTLY what the used game market does for disk-based games. The only difference between the steam model and the disc-based model is that the producer doesn't get a cut of the game sales.
- tedsanders 13y ago"Exactly?" Not at all. I don't mean to nitpick, but I think you're exaggerating. Steam sales are a way of increasing profits by price discriminating to capture the long tail of the demand curve. Used games have nothing to do with earning the developers more money. Maybe they're similar from a consumer perspective, but that doesn't mean they're similar.
- voyou 13y agoThere's little if any used market for PC games, so not being able to resell a used Steam copy of a game doesn't differentiate it from a physical copy. The same isn't true for console games.