Yes, digital games are by and large more expensive than their disc counterparts a while after release, but digital games also regularly get put on significant sale, which often makes them cheaper than the disc versions. If you’re not waiting for sales to buy them, I’m not sure why you’re buying them at all.
How often do consoles get the kind of deep discounts that games get on PC, though? Or even the base price drops over time? It’s not really a great deal when a $60 title drops to $30 on PSN, but the same game costs $30 as its base price on Steam and is currently discounted to $8.
And let’s not even get into Nintendo’s pricing…
Honestly most multi platform games I look at end up massively cheaper on sale on PlayStation than Steam. They have big(many games) weekly sales and even bigger “event” sales. Like your 60/30 example isn’t Sonys doing that’s the publisher. But the same thing happens the other way some games stay high priced way longer than you’d expect on Steam.
Frankly Steam quit being the biggest discounts and such years ago just riding on the coattails of their reputation on how great their big sales used to be.
The thing is that that has nothing to do with Sony, though. Sony gets a 30% cut on game sales. That’s the same amount that Valve takes. You can sell your game for however much you want. Sony isn’t enforcing high base game prices like Nintendo. I fully support this type of lawsuit against Nintendo. Fuck them.
