PS4 vs. Xbox One

SloSlayer je 19. jul 2016 ob 13:26 izjavil:

Zanimam se za nakup konzole. Zanima me, ali lahko igre, ki se nahajajo na zgoščenkah, potem ko jih preigram prodam dalje ali to na novih konzolah ni več mogoče?

This all may sound like muddled business babble, but the translation of it roughly equates to this.
A company will always want to sell a game for full price whenever they can. But the problem is that physical retail copies take up literal shelf space. In order to move product, literally move it, off store shelves, places like Gamestop or warehouses like Amazon will have to sell physical games at a discount at some point. That's an accepted part of retail.

Digital obviously does not have that problem. There is no inventory to clear out, so Ubisoft is free to have the price be high for longer. In this case they are Amazon or Gamestop, as they're selling you the game directly with only a tiny middleman in the form of Xbox Live or PSN (or Steam, but that's a more competitive atmosphere so you see more discounts more often). With no actual inventory and an eternal desire to sell for full price, here we are.

It's also the case that digital copies can't simply sell for say, $50 instead of $60, even though with the amount of cost saved through a lack of physical production, packaging, distribution and an intermediate store, it could easily be priced there. If digital games start being sold for cheaper than their physical counterparts when they're new, that upsets retail partners greatly and they may refuse to carry certain games that do this, and so on.