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mentil (1748130) on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @05:23AM
(#35148316)      Big-name games that cost $10 million to develop
and have $25 million marketing budgets aren't going to be $1 any
time soon, the market just isn't large enough to sell 50
million+ copies, at any price. Only 50 million Xbox 360s have
been sold, for reference.      The console makers set the
licensing fee that publishers pay per disc, AFAIK it's a flat
fee, so disc games will never be $1. Do you think Wal-Mart would
bother stocking $1 games? They might set up a RedBox-style
machine that spits out discs, but the shelf space used for the
traditional route would no longer be feasible.      Publishers
are running scared because they know the future is in digital
distribution, and precedent is being set, while