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[PropellerEar]

This thread is to show case why people should still buy physical games when ever possible, demonstrated with Ratched and Clank - Rift Apart.
Please post the best deal for physical version you can find in your country.

Sweden:

Digital at Sony store:

Physical:

849 - 598 = 251 reasons to buy physical.
30% lower price on physical version of the game.
(Also free shipping on the physical versions i listed)

 

[Salmon Snake]

Playstation 5 made me go back to physical.

The price differences in Finland are ridiculous.
Disc version of Demon's Souls Remake was 20 € cheaper and Returnal was 30 € cheaper.

Edit. And I was talking about release prices.

 

[Duchess]

I mentioned it in another thread, but right now R+C is the top selling game on Amazon UK, and has been for a while now. That, despite it costing £70.

(it's at #7 in the chart, but the other items are controllers and digital vouchers)

 

[Kupfer]

But then I have to get up when I want to play another game, get sweaty and then the controller slips out of my sausage fingers.
Joking aside, after 4 games the surcharge of the 100 € disc edition was already worth it financially, besides it's cool to have something in your hand when you already spend a lot of money on actual games and not just the license to play it for some years. If sony closes the store in 20 years, I can install a finished game (not cyberpunk for example, my sealed CE is worthless in terms of offline playability) at any time and play it again.

 

[Dr Bass]

For me the convenience and ease of digital is worth whatever they charge. I do not care about reselling at all. Time is the most important thing to me and digital gets me games right when I want them.

 

[PropellerEar]

My other home country Finland:

Digital:

Physical:

20€ difference in Finland (Thats almost a case of beer)
(Might come better deals closer to release)

 

[Banjo64]

I mentioned it in another thread, but right now R+C is the top selling game on Amazon UK, and has been for a while now. That, despite it costing £70.

(it's at #7 in the chart, but the other items are controllers and digital vouchers)

£5 cheaper on other sites.

 

[PropellerEar]

For me the convenience and ease of digital is worth whatever they charge. I do not care about reselling at all. Time is the most important thing to me and digital gets me games right when I want them.

The price is not the only reason for choosing physical.
This is my futile attempt to resist digital walled gardens.

I don't resell, I give my finished games to friends and family(who wouldn't otherwise play them).

 

[Melchiah]

Yeah, Returnal and REVIII were 60€ in Finland as well, but oddly Returnal rose to 65€ afterwards. It's the first time I've seen the price going up after the release.

 

[FatKingBallman]

Yeah, Returnal and REVIII were 60€ in Finland as well, but oddly Returnal rose to 65€ afterwards. It's the first time I've seen the price going up after the release.

Preorder prices are often lower before official game release.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

€69 is the cheapest I found in Germany (that's with shipping cost included).

€75 is the cheapest I found with free shipping.

It's €80 in the PS store.

 

[Cyborg]

Those prices..I would expect them to promote digital copies and price it in a competitive way

 

[THE DUCK]

In North America, with exception of thev"big e3 sale" that gets worse every year, they are mostly on par.

 

[RoadHazard]

Yep, the PS Store prices are absolutely fucking ludicrous here in Sweden now. They were bad last gen too, but now they're just shameless.

A digital copy IMO has inherently lower value than physical. It costs less to produce and distribute (basically nothing), it can't be lent to a friend or resold, etc. So it should be cheaper, but instead it's SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive. It's so stupid.

Sony (and others) clearly want us to transition to digital, but with these prices they can fuck right off with that. I'm not paying such a premium for the small convenience of not having to get up and change discs.

 

[PropellerEar]

Preorder prices are often lower before official game release.

That's often the case, but some big games get good release day deals. (e.g 39,90€ for CyberPunk 2077 in Finland)

 

[Salmon Snake]

My other home country Finland:

Digital:

Physical:

20€ difference in Finland (Thats almost a case of beer)
(Might come better deals closer to release)

Yeah, I'm waiting for better deals but my order finger is twitching

 

[Riky]

I think ita £70 digital here in the UK but I got a physical copy for £58. Glad I haven't got a digital edition PS5, that £90 saving would be gone in no time.

 

[Gen.Grievous]

Those prices..I would expect them to promote digital copies and price it in a competitive way

Yeah I've got news for you. This is never the case. I'm an relatively early adopter of steam and as soon as regional stores were introduced Steam was more expensive than retail.

 

[Melchiah]

Preorder prices are often lower before official game release.

Never before here in Finland, or at least in that store. All the other current and past gen games remained at the same price immediately after the release day. I wager the pre-launch price for Returnal was either a mistake, or testing waters with a local game.

 

[PropellerEar]

Yeah I've got news for you. This is never the case. I'm an relatively early adopter of steam and as soon as regional stores were introduced Steam was more expensive than retail.

Now that PC physical doesn't exist, I don't need to even check Steam Summer sale anymore, I know before hand there aren't any good deals.

 

[SoloKingRobert]

The price is not the only reason for choosing physical.
This is my futile attempt to resist digital walled gardens.

I don't resell, I give my finished games to friends and family(who wouldn't otherwise play them).

With Digital games you can gameshare and play the games at the same time with your friends or family members via Coop or online Multiplayer.

 

[emivita]

Here in Italy a store is selling the game at €79.99 with a free €20 PSN card and free shipping, so that's like paying €59.99.

 

[Bonfires Down]

849 kr, fucking insane

Unfortunately I don’t want the hassle of physical copies, but I never buy day 1 anyway so the price matters less when it’s 50+% off.

 

[xrnzaaas]

In my country the physical version is only slightly less expensive than the digital one - about 69€ instead of digital's 75€. It'll probably improve soon though, because already some of the stores are selling PS5 bundles with this game.

 

[PropellerEar]

849 kr, fucking insane

Unfortunately I don’t want the hassle of physical copies, but I never buy day 1 anyway so the price matters less when it’s 50+% off.

(849kr converted to USD is ~100$)

6 months later -13%

Amazon.de (additional -20% if you buy 2 games) :

 

[hoplie]

€69 is the cheapest I found in Germany (that's with shipping cost included).

€75 is the cheapest I found with free shipping.

It's €80 in the PS store.

So digital is cheaper if you buy psn credits with factor 0,8.

 

[PropellerEar]

So digital is cheaper if you buy psn credits with factor 0,8.

Any tips on how to do this?

 

[hoplie]

There are often deals for psn gift cards from resellers. I am buying in germany and track dealz via mydealz.de. You often can get psn credit with factor 0,8.

One example: https://www.mydealz.de/deals/40eur-...ur-3119eur-psn-deutschland-faktor-078-1804841

 

[Bernd Lauert]

There are often deals for psn gift cards from resellers. I am buying in germany and track dealz via mydealz.de. You often can get psn credit with factor 0,8.

One example: https://www.mydealz.de/deals/40eur-...ur-3119eur-psn-deutschland-faktor-078-1804841

Huh, that's actually pretty cool.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Awful prices!

It's the worst thing about this gen IMO.

 

[Spidey Fan]

People who scream about physical games, remember not everyone has the store, or the ability to get those physical games.

Digital makes it easier for them. While physical becomes hard to find (I have yet to find those persona discs from my gamestop. Its mostly western games here).

Happy gaming day ratchet and clank owners. Hope you enjoy your game.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

People who scream about physical games, remember not everyone has the store, or the ability to get those physical games.

Digital makes it easier for them. While physical becomes hard to find (I have yet to find those persona discs from my gamestop. Its mostly western games here).

Happy gaming day ratchet and clank owners. Hope you enjoy your game.

Bruh just order them on Amazon.

 

[kruis]

Cheapest price for the physical edition in the Netherlands is 66 euro.

Alternatively you could buy discounted PSN Wallet Topup cards at CDKeys.com. The sold the 35 euro card for 30 euro (15% discount) last week. If I had bought three of those, I would have paid 68 euro for R&C, "only" two euros more than the cheapest physical edition here in NL.

Still, in the good old PS4 days, new games would cost around 56 euro, not 66 euro.

 

[PropellerEar]

People who scream about physical games, remember not everyone has the store, or the ability to get those physical games.

Digital makes it easier for them. While physical becomes hard to find (I have yet to find those persona discs from my gamestop. Its mostly western games here).

Happy gaming day ratchet and clank owners. Hope you enjoy your game.

I don't think anyone questions the easiness of digital.
Persona 5 Royal physical was available here at some stores, harder to find now.
I usually wait for Big in Japan sale in PS store to splurge on Japanese games.

In case of Sweden and R&C 30% saving and free delivery compared to digital.
(Pretty good compensation for waiting few days for delivery, in my case I can pop into the store and get it same day)

 

[Spidey Fan]

Bruh just order them on Amazon.

Easier than said. That isn't the case for other side of the world.

As for me, I am embraced the digital world long time. Its convenient for a lazy person like me. No more looking at disc's to find the correct game 40 Og xbox games, and I have to shuffle the correct game to play, since I keep mixing them down. Short memory from my side, so, its hard to know where they are.

 

[Spidey Fan]

I don't think anyone questions the easiness of digital.
Persona 5 Royal physical was available here at some stores, harder to find now.
I usually wait for Big in Japan sale in PS store to splurge on Japanese games.

In case of Sweden and R&C 30% saving and free delivery compared to digital.
(Pretty good compensation for waiting few days for delivery, in my case I can pop into the store and get it same day)

With deluxe edition or whatever is called, makes it harder for my to justify physical. Are those exist on physical disc edition? Or they only for digital edition?.

 

[PropellerEar]

With deluxe edition or whatever is called, makes it harder for my to justify physical. Are those exist on physical disc edition? Or they only for digital edition?.

I think there was a physical - Digital Deluxe edition not sure how widely it was available(not available anymore). I think it just included a code to make it "Deluxe".

 

[Gediminas]

Norway price:

if you are member of Elkjøp, you get 10% discount, but it's very easy to apply so price would be 584,1kr

 

[PropellerEar]

Norway price:

if you are member of Elkjøp, you get 10% discount, but it's very easy to apply so price would be 584,1kr

that's a pretty good discount vs the digital price.

 

[Gediminas]

I think there was a physical - Digital Deluxe edition not sure how widely it was available(not available anymore). I think it just included a code to make it "Deluxe".

insomniac, i think, told us already that you can buy deluxe upgrade if you buy physical copy.

 

[rofif]

it's 90usd physical and digital in Poland

 

[ZywyPL]

it's 90usd physical and digital in Poland

Yeah, I remember getting all PS3 games on day one for 169zł, now the games cost 329, so that on-paper 50->70€ increase in practice means double the price.

 

[Ryder]

It's $99 on amazon in Australia. New release games for ps5 are usually 110.

 

[Birdo]

The game requires a day 1 patch. The physical version is literally just a licence key.

May as well just pay a little extra for digital convinience.

 

[Jack Videogames]

I managed to get it from Amazon Spain for 66€, around 80USD - doesn't seem that a great deal, but in my country it costs 75€, so I save around 10 bucks.

After I'm done it's going straight to CEX. I'm not a super fan of selling games, but I've been doing it for the last two gens as it's the only realistic way to get all games. I got Returnal for 68€ and got 50€ back so it went well all things considered.

So yeah, window shopping for best physical prices and then reselling is the way to go for me.

 

[Portugeezer]

It should be the opposite... but as long as the digital stores stick to the MSRP/RRP - despite being cheaper for publishers and making more money per sale - then there will always be a reason to buy physically. Not to mention you can lend your game or sell it if you ever want.

 

[Kerotan]

Buying physical is retarded for me. Smyths and gamestop Ireland selling new ratchet for €80.

My USA PSN account can get it for $70 which is €57. That's €23 cheaper by going digital.

 

[Roufianos]

£5 cheaper on other sites.

Got it for £61.85 on Base.com.

 

[Gediminas]

Buying physical is retarded for me. Smyths and gamestop Ireland selling new ratchet for €80.

My USA PSN account can get it for $70 which is €57. That's €23 cheaper by going digital.

buying digital is retarded to me, buying the game for 70$, playing it, resold for 60$, it is 10$. 60$ cheaper than going digital.

 

[mckmas8808]

Playstation 5 made my go back to physical.

The price differences in Finland are ridiculous.
Disc version of Demon's Souls Remake was 20 € cheaper and Returnal was 30 € cheaper.

Edit. And I was talking about release prices.

And some people want a digital ONLY future. SMH