Why digital games rarely depreciate? Sales are stupid before price trackers!

Physical games DO reduce their price like any other entertainment.

Digital games don't lose value as fast because they are cheap to maintain on "shelves". Just like digital movie prices bottom out at around $3.99 rent/$9.99 buy. Games just tend to be more expensive than movies and have a higher bottom price.

Physical games generally need to leave a store within a few months before they drop price because space is limited. Digital storefronts aren't limited in content in most cases.

Since you can store a nearly infinite amount of digital games there is no incentive to progressively cut prices and move products. This is why physical stores have "clearance" sections that can has games that are extremely cheap.

As to why digital games don't eventually drop to $10/$5 permanently. That's probably a bit more complicated.

There's no reason for them to drop prices too much when the game is still being bought digitally, there's probably a decent amount of company agreements to go through that have to be accepted and it's generally not associated with an increase in sales (in fact, a $30 game being on sale for $5 is more likely to move more units over a game moving to a $5 permanent price).

Well, where I live sucks at prices, so digital games are the only hope. It's not the case of Steam, because they have prices in my currency. But all the other ones are terribly pricey. Dollar is also too expensive, so it's not easy to buy stuff in other currency at all. Even so, it's better than buying here or waiting for a physical copy from other country, 'cause mail service here sucks as well.

Beside that, physical copies are not like they used to be. Before, you had a nice box with some awesome art, a CD/DVD/cartridge which was, if not beautiful, at least very nice and a manual which had a good smell (lol). Nowadays we get physical copies with "meh" content, standardized media for all games and no manual at all. Some boxes are still kinda nice, but I feel they are like too much if compared to their content. Changing media has become an annoyance too, maybe because of the conveniences of modern life (aka. we became lazy people used to solve problems with technology instead of moving ourselves' butts to do anything analogically).

Poll should have had " I have a huge backlog......i can wait"

But yes ,the worst thing is dvd cases with a code inside.
Or steam games with half a game on disc ,encrypted.

hype from Fallout 4 and Division killed my desire to buy new games (pip-boy is great to have in my shelves but, too expensive), now only sales.
STOP THE HYPE
(Actually im waiting to spend my money in Metro Exodus and Cyberpunk 2077 so i think im losing the war)

Digital games do have base price reductions over the time, however it's the decision of the publisher. You might want to provide examples to talk about it en detail.

The market is that way because there are people willing to pay the full price. The base price of a game is basically tied to the value the (potential) playerbase gives to it. Value is how much we think something is really worth, what we believe we'll get out of something. So hype, how well it scores in reviews, how popular it currently is, if we have friends playing it, if there's exclusive content from preordering, etc, all those give us an idea of how much we value the game and if it matches or exceeds the price tag. If a game does not give players the value its price tag states, then people won't buy it. If people don't buy, then they're forced to lower the price.

And sales have a different purpose than the base price. Sales push way more people that already want something than those that don't. If no one is willing to buy it at full price, the odds people would be willing to buy it at a discount will be fairly low.

Also, the base price and sales dynamics tend to affect how we perceive the game's value, too. If you see a game with $60 price tag and it has a 75% discount, we'll get the impression they're really pushing for sales and question if the game's worth it. If the game's dropped to $30 and then gets a 50% discount, we're not as likely to think that way, especially if we're not aware it was $60 originally.

Marketing 101:

Peiplw are more likely to buy something that’s half off $40 than the same item for $20
Discounts/sales trigger the brain. Prices are kept artificially high so that the sale is more enticing. and, of course, so that the few people willing to pay more can do so

AAA games do drop in price considerably, typically reaching starting at $60, going down to $40 and reaching $20 over time, sometimes $10 (or less for really old games). That's not universally true, but it's largely true. Often a game will be bundled with all DLC as a special edition (sometimes with other enhancements) and then the price goes up compared to what the original release reached, but it then continues to drop in price.

If you want to buy a game at $5 or less, you'd probably have to wait a very long time, or buy on a deal.