Why do new blu-rays cost $20 but new games cost $60?

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Originally Posted by SexySamSosa67

New games on Xbox One/PS4 cost three times as much as a blu-ray. Why is this? It's not like games are 4K or anything.

Movies are sold in all sort of ways. They start in cinema. Go through pay TV. Then Home cinema. Regular TV. etc.

Games don't have the luxury. And those games also have an effectively limited audience.

Just take a look at the BEST SELLING ps3 games.

GTA 5 with 20 million copies
Gran Turismo with 12 million copies
Last of Us with 7 million
MGS4 with 6 million
...
Uncharted 2 for example sold 4 million only

Ni No Kuni sold 1.1 million only. Just compare that with worldwide Studio Ghibli movie sales numbers. And then take into account that game development costs are getting larger and larger. That also explains why there are more and more games with microtransactions and DLC and that crap out there. Why more and more games are dumbed down etc. That's because of the costs involved.