Why are Blu Ray's more expensive than DVD's but PS3 and 360 game are same price

[bajor27]

Originally Posted by navyman

Actually the op brings up a good point. PS3 games are on bluray while 360 games are on dvd. So it seems that it costs more to manufacture a PS3 game then it would to manufacture a 360 game. I would guess that the prices are the same in order to remain competitive but this would shrink the profit margin for the PS3.

This is what I would have said. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

To add to this though. Games also seem to be produced in larger quantities than movies. For example, not one blu-ray movie (well maybe Iron Man) has sold 1 million copies, but there are at least a handful of PS3 games that have. Since companies know they aren't getting those sales numbers on movies, they won't have as many manufactured. If the games are being produced in larger quantities, the cost per disc should be lower and thus selling the games at equal price to the 360 version probably isn't as big of a hit to the profit margin as it would be with movies.