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What's up everybody welcome to IG a game scoop. I'm your statement head field join me this week is Vince in genito

Hey, oh Brandon Tyrell and making his first scoop appearance Jonathan Dormbush

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You don't know him. He's one of our news writers who works for Andrew Goldfarb is an all-around cool dude

Thanks for coming by the show. Thank you for having a great show for this week. We're gonna talk about day of sex

It's a subject I know Vince cares about at least

We're gonna talk about apparently a bio-ware has a new game coming out and they're not too distant future

But first we got an email from one of our listeners Joe W

He emailed us at the email address. Yeah, yeah at igin.com just like you can and he says I'm curious

How much triple a games should really cost allow me to explain I walk into a game stop and I want to buy a

Mass Effect andromeda it's 60 bucks assuming GameStop is making money on every game sold

How much are they paying EA per unit and how much are they making in profit now?

I open up my or I open up origin on my PC. I want to buy Mass Effect and drama

It's 60 bucks why if I'm buying right from the publisher why am I paying the same amount that I would pay to a third party or I go to

Amazon I want to buy Mass Effect andromeda I have Amazon Prime so it's $48 assuming Amazon still wants to make a profit on each unit sold

How much are they paying EA per unit and how much are they making in profit?

It seems to me that triple a games are $60 because they just are there just seems to be no rhyme or reason to it

Whether you're buying from a distributor or right from the publisher. It's the same price. It doesn't make sense to me

So the place this question has to go to is the publisher

That's where the money is in this in this industry like this this whole triangle of like the retailer and the developer and the publisher and

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