I find it slightly ridiculous that AAA games are priced similarly to their console counterparts at $60. When you buy a console game at a store, you are technically buying a disc with the game in it and the packaging. Steam games are digital, and lack any form of physical packaging, and therefore should be slightly cheaper. I think that depending on the game, AAA games should be $10 cheaper than their physical console counterparts at the most. What is your side of this argument?
Update: my argument has been effectively countered. I am switching sides. Disregard my original argument. I still want to hear from you regardless.
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1 ReplyValve doesn't control the prices of games other than their own; the publisher of each game sets the price according what they think will be low enough to sell, yet high enough to maximize profit margins. If anything games honestly should be more expensive. If you adjust for inflation the price of games has actually come down since the 90s.