@Keldraxas The problem with those sales though is it has really affected smaller developers. Things go on sale so fast on PS and Xbox that no one really has to pay full price for anything anymore on those platforms.
Xbox has a sale every week and PS has big game sales all the time which means there is rarely an opportunity for those smaller games to be more competitive. Even bigger games find themselves in a difficult position if they take a risk on something different so we get the same thing churned out over and over.
It has also encouraged a ‘race to the bottom’ in pricing terms which then leads bigger devs to start considering other means of making money – ones that many gamers complain of as exploitative practices.
Finally it has a damaging effect on independent retailers. It is a well known issue for smaller shops that they cannot buy games at a good price and make a decent profit on them even at full price but given that most game receive a discount in the first 3 months their stock becomes worthless in mere weeks. If they buy one copy too many they lose money overall.
Only Nintendo and the second hand game market stops some of these stores going under all together.
I know it’s nice to get more for your money but there are consequences to these practices and ones that aren’t ultimately good for the industry.