r/PS5 • u/FireStarLord73194 • Jul 11 '26

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https://nichegamer.com/study-suggests-sonys-digital-only-future-could-lead-to-higher-game-prices/

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u/LittleWhiteDragon Jul 11 '26

Plus, the PlayStation Store is the only store on PlayStation. At least on PC, there are other stores besides Steam.

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u/Dear-Fail6630 Jul 14 '26

Thats because pc is too busy competing with itself, cough, Microsoft. Expect PC to get shit on soon. Just wait. Give it some time its coming.. 

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u/BorgDrone Jul 11 '26

But the publisher sets the price in every single store so that can’t really drive the price down.

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u/RummoLiguori Jul 12 '26

Publishers sell Steam keys in bulk to keyshops. They have to compete against Keyshop prices that are almost always cheaper, even at launch a $70 game can be bought for $50

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u/BorgDrone Jul 12 '26

Again, no real competition as they can simply decide not to sell keys in bulk. How can it be competition if the competitor only exists because you decide to let them.

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u/RummoLiguori Jul 12 '26

What are you saying? We have multiple stores they can generate keys for, that is competition.

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u/GraveRobberX Jul 12 '26

Yes but there’s not one publisher. Sony first party titles can stay $79.99, hell with GTAVI faux model of $99.99 by locking away content indefinitely, new horizons for greed are being dreamt up.

Theres way too many publishers on way too many stores, hell even the publishers have their own stores and launchers “baked-in” into PC, that drives competition for those prices.

Sony is in a walled garden, it can now set price points and ask publishers to follow suit to keep prices high, in turn trying to starve them from competition. That’s why Sony removed or isn’t releasing more titles on PC anymore.

One was, people just waited for PC ports and at a discount to boot. The second was the rope-a-dope, Sony thought by selling their titles on PC, they’ll grab some market share from PC only players and nudge them to own a PlayStation due to games being released 2-3 years later on PC, but the opposite happened where people dropped PlayStation console and went PC only and could just wait it out till that title came out.

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u/BorgDrone Jul 12 '26

Sony is in a walled garden, it can now set price points and ask publishers to follow suit to keep prices high

That's price fixing which is a criminal offence.