Digital Gaming Is Expensive
So there I was browsing the Playstation Store. I didn’t have the intention to buy anything I just like browsing every now and then. Just to keep myself up to date. Anyway, during my browsing I noticed Rayman had been released and I was like “HELL YEAHZ” and then I saw the price £47.99.
WTF! £48 (it’s called rounding up get used to it) for a fucking game. But not just any game. A platformer. I’m not going to go off on a massive rant going on about how platformers typically don’t have the most amazing graphics or story line but I do know they are cheaper to make than most games.
Anyway £48 for what is essentially a platformer. But it’s not that that pissed me off noooo. It was the fact that this was a digital version of the game. A digital version that for all intents and purposes should be cheaper for so many reasons. You don’t need to pay for warehouse space to keep the games, you don’t need to pay for production onto a disk, stores don’t need to pay money to clerks who need to sell the game whilst making a profit and best of all it can be bought a virtually unlimited amount of times.
If a store can sell a physical copy of a game for £39.99 and make a profit, why on earth does Sony feel the need to charge such a cast amount? Maybe there is something deeper that I don’t understand. Maybe not. I’m just a consumer who won’t be switching to digital anytime soon.
On a side note I’m not ridiculing platformers. They’re amazing games and some of my favourite games are platformers like the original Rayman on the PS1.
