NOTE: This blog is ONLY referring to full retail games being sold on XBL and PSN. Not Arcade games and PS Mini's. 
 
its the 21st century and Digital Distribution is in. I like many gamers would love to buy my games digtaly vs going to the store all the god damn time. Not that there is anything wrong with box copies, its just nice from a  convenience prospective. i was excited when retail games started showing up on XBL, but then became  immediately disappointed to find all of them are still set at retail price... Game companys love to talk about how the used games  industry is hurting business and blah blah blah. but can you really blame a logical person for going out and buying, say Resident Evil 5 for 10 - 5 bucks used VS dropping 29.99 on a boxed/digtaly copy?  
Cue STEAM. Valves digital store is by far the best way to not only fight used game sales but also treat its customers right. free to play weekends, crazy sales and bundles. its the best damn thing ever. yet the console makers continue to charge outrageous prices for there Digital games. Gabe Newell spoke to a school of  business about... well the  business end of Steam, and here is a fun fact for you. when ever they have a Steam sale, like say Torchlight for 2.99. not only do they make a better profit then if they were to keep it at the MSRP, BUT when the game goes back to normal price 14.99 it continues to sell like gang busters. meanwhile a few years ago both Sony and Microsoft said they could sell there games cheaper online because they no longer had to pay for retail space, printing disc, shipping disc ect. It would seem they have scene back peddled on that idea and kind of hoped no one would remember them saying that... its a shitty  business model and it just pisses me off all to hell.  
i about laughed when i saw Halo Reach was going on sale on Games on Demand this week. only to find out what they considered "sale" was 49.99... Amazon price used 27 bucks. if they went nuts and said HALO REACH ONLY 19.99 THIS WEEK i bet you they would have made a killing in terms of sales... i mean i would have bought it.