Microsoft Considering Making Digital Games Cheaper

Interested to see how much they drop the price, if they do at all.

 

Ill believe thia when it happens.

 

[quote user="x24hrs2livex"]

Ill believe thia when it happens.

[/quote]Who's Thia? =P

 

I see you got your job back as the grammar police? Curse my fat thumbs and this stupid phone.

 

The only issue I have about downloading from the MS store, except price, is the speed, it took me 7 hours to download COD ghost on the XO, on the say the XO came out (thats on fibre optic), the fact is I am wanting to play on a midnight launch, its alow
quicker to go to the store queue for an hour and come home install and play.

I wouldn't have a problem if I could pre order and it would be downloaded and working at the midnight launch time, but at present all digital isn't going to happen unless its cheaper than the stores and I don't think that will happen.

 

[quote user="EnenDaveyBoy"]

The only issue I have about downloading from the MS store, except price, is the speed, it took me 7 hours to download COD ghost on the XO, on the say the XO came out (thats on fibre optic), the fact is I am wanting to play on a midnight launch, its alow
quicker to go to the store queue for an hour and come home install and play.

I wouldn't have a problem if I could pre order and it would be downloaded and working at the midnight launch time, but at present all digital isn't going to happen unless its cheaper than the stores and I don't think that will happen.

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Considering Ghosts is 39 gigs, how fast do you expect it to be? Im on fiber too, and it took about 5 hours

 

I knew he would be back. Looks side to side

Heh someone's got to do it.

I still do not think digi only is stable enough. I hope the best for it though.

 

Only good thing about games on demand being more expensive is it encourage people to still buy from shops and for the second hand market.

But if it is a game I wanted and it's cheaper to download, then I'd quite happy to buy it from the Xbox store.

 

As long as MS doesn't sell a percentage vs an actual cash discount.......

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5% discount on a $60 game is only $3 (basically the tax I pay in Alberta) (example only)

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To me dollar figures mean way more to me than a % on such a low dollar amount.......

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% really mean nothing to me, but can be portrayed as a "big deal"

 

I think if they do make digital cheaper they should drop the street dates on retail discs. When a store gets it, let them sell it for full price. Then release it digitally on release date for cheaper. It would keep retailers happy and we would have a choice
to go out and get it right away or wait a few days to save.

I still don't think going all digital is worth it unless you 100% know you will love it and play it for at least 3 years.

At least with a disc, if you grow bored you can pass is along.

 

Considering to make them cheaper? They should be cheaper than physical discs in the first place! Company's like EA/Activision dream that one day consoles with be digial online. I have no issues with a digital only console. But not when they think its ok
charging £55 for Battlefield or Call Of Duty ect.

This is what I think should start happening. Price the disc based games at RRP £45. Then a digital version of the same title for RRP £39.99 on PSN/XBL ect. Then here is the kicker and do what Steam does. Allow retailers like Getgamesgo,Amazon,GAME,Green Man
Gaming sell the game keys/codes at what ever price they want.

Here is a perfect example in what I mean. Thief 4 comes out next month on Steam it costs £26.99 if you want to get it directly from Steam. If you wanted a physical one it would cost you £28 delivered from

Amazon. But if you go to
GreenManGaming using a discount code (provided by GMG) you can a key for Thief to redeem on Steam for £18. This is the future I would like to see. It works on PC now so why not consoles?

 

[quote user="ocelot20"]Considering to make them cheaper? They should be cheaper than physical discs in the first place![/quote]That's a fallacy. While that bone was thrown to PC gamers a long time ago, more and more I see publishers climbing back up to the
$59.99 price point for all versions of a title.

Is there a reason you think the cost should be lower? Digital does not mean no brick and mortar presence. The cost
of a physical game is around $4. That's the cost of production and packing and shipping. The cost of having it in stores is far greater (the retailer cut) and I don't see that cost going away. Codes at retail or disc at retail both require brick and mortar
to store the items somewhere and then people to check out shoppers. The advantage of codes is that we would gain the benefit of store sales.

This is one of the things that's keeping pricing on PSN and XBL high, though Sony appears to have some sort of deal with Amazon to sell some PSN codes via Amazon.

When PSN first started Day One Digital, they offered a 10% discount for pre-ordering. That seems to have gone away. I would like to see, at a minimum, pre-order discounts and bonuses on both PSN and Live as the rule, not the exception.

 

I don't know how many times i said that on various threads, way before the X1 was released.

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What you need are an Amazon, Play.com, Origin, and any other retailer app on the X1, with the facility of all of these to offer Digital Download to your X1 from their servers.

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This would then initiate, a price competition situation for digital game downloads, and specific digital retailers could offer different release day bonuses. You could then compare all of these prices, while you are looking at the Microsoft store, and see
which is the cheapest, or which is offering the best add-ons or extras.

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It would smash the market wide open, and help the consumer out no end, with loads more extra choice.

 

I hope this news is true because for me this is literally the sole reason to go to PS4. Right now I can go to Amazon.com and buy several digital PS4 codes at a much cheaper price than those offered on the MS store.

For a lot of gamers, getting a good price for the games you want is hugely important and right now PS4 is winning that battle by a long shot. MS should not underestimate the importance of this issue.

 

Ive gone digital pretty much own 5 digital games vs 3 disc games...You can find most of the launch games for about 10 bucks cheaper if not more at most stores and amazon.com....MS needs to lower its prices by 10 bucks.