Why digital console games the same price as new physical discs?

Based Colin explains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5tgo_OkwNc

Because retailers don't want to lower their prices to compete with digital storefronts and threaten publishers with not stocking their games if they try that, and retail sales are still too significant a part of the market to lose.

>we can reduce the price to match what it costs us
vs
>we can milk those fucking retarded moneybags more and they'll be happy to be milked

i sure wonder. really fires up my frontal neurons.

>>384249509
Greed

>>384249509
Because they can get away with it.

Capitalism

>>384249509
Physical stores. A physical store is simply going to choose to not sell a physical copy of a game when it is available for half price elsewhere, and while a lot of people do purchase games digitally, a large amount of the market is still in physical media. Having no store presence will cut into game sales a lot, because being on store shelves not just helps with the physical market, but also acts as a form of advertising.

>>384249603
Holy Media Bias, Batman! That video is some very terrible "reporting".

>>384249509
Lobbying from physical retailers. Extorting publishers.