Why are console games more expensive than PC versions?

User's answer is correct, though I'd say that the console gaming industry wants to keep their games expensive, because they most likely want bigger margins. So they keep making disks and supporting the disk-based industries, because they presumably make more money that way. read more

It is considerably easier to run a pirated version of a game on a PC than on a console. Given this, most console owners have little choice but to buy an official version of the game, whether it's a disc or download, and will need to do so at a higher price, often sullenly. read more

That explanation doesn't make sense, when for more than a decade new release games have been cheaper on the PC than consoles. These days there are fewer manufacturers of PC hardware than there used to be, so if it was a case of having to test for all the different chipsets then game prices should have been equal or more expensive on the PC 10 years go compared to the consoles of the day. read more

"Digital is more reactive than what we put in stores, but at the same time, it doesn't react as fast on consoles than it does on PC," Guillemot said."What we can say is that when games are older than one year, digital is a lot more dynamic on console because there are less units in stores. read more