The digital /
physical price differential is the only thing really holding consoles back from going the way of the PC digital only platform.
We will be waiting a long time for Digital prices to align
with physical pricing especially with more and more stores getting into pre owned games.
In addition, metals warehousing has drawn attention due to allegations that banks and merchants have tried to game the London Metal Exchange (LME) warehousing rules, deliberately creating bottlenecks for aluminum consumers such as drinks can makers to boost storage income, while
raising physical prices.
On the NZX, whole milk futures prices have rallied on the prospect of less product being put up for sale by Fonterra,
suggesting physical prices may start to rebound at tomorrow's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.
As any business traveler knows, working in, say, Amsterdam one week, Dubai the next and Palm Springs the week after that
exactsa physical price.
Whether physical prices should go up or digital prices should come down is almost inconsequential to this simple point: The prices should not be the same.
Because Gamestop won't see a cut from PSN or Xbox Live sales, they exercise the only leverage they have left — They refuse to carry the games that won't have digital and
physical price parity on day 1.
Thankfully Vita's going to have a great holiday season game wise and hopefully with PS + coming digital game prices will even out
with physical prices.
(It's also important to remember that there's a huge disconnect between the «paper price» of gold, and
the physical price of gold.)
Ultimately holders of GLD will demand physical metal and
the physical price will rise and the paper price will fall.
Nevertheless, I'll follow up: Why would GLD fail to track
the physical price in a scenario such as you've outlined?
I was going to jump on 2033, but it looks like
the physical price has cratered.