A new report from Dutch website Tweakers looked at the historical pricing for 16 PlayStation 5 games, comparing the average price between retail stores and the PlayStation Store in the Netherlands. The PlayStation Store was almost always more expensive.
Pair that with the recent news that PlayStation will be ending physical disc production in 2018 with rumor that Xbox will follow suit, and that spells a grim future for game prices. Essentially, the pricing of all games on the respective platforms would be under the control of the individual companies.
Tweakers has a Pricewatch function as part of their site that compares prices on all sorts of products across retailers in Netherlands. Their data shows pricing for these PlayStation 5 games stating in July 8th, 2022.
The above data is for Horizon Forbidden West. It is a unique game in this dataset in that it is the only first party from PlayStation that saw a permanent price reduction in its full price. Every other first party title, when not on sale, returns to its full price that it was at launch, no matter the age of the game.
This is largely true with third-party games as well, though the...
