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cinntaile on Jan 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

You assume that the Steam users are willing to pay the same price as Switch users, but that's not necessarily the case. Volume matters as well, maybe the number of Steam users is way more than the number of Switch users so they can make up for the lower price by selling more.

docmars on Jan 18, 2022 [–]

Exactly this — and devs selling on Steam have the choice to participate in sales or not.

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