2008-12-18, 05:33 PM
One actual reason NX cards give more benefits is the pressure from retail stores such as Target. Target does not want you to buy something that they have in their store that has more benefits than what they are selling, elsewhere. Target sells the cards to get people in the actual Target store(same reason there are Target advertisements in the game). Cards are generally not the best thing for the store to be selling (they take up a decent bit of space and don't give that much profit to the store), but the fact is they get people to come to Target that normally wouldn't (like myself when I could only get NX at Target.)
Retail stores such as Target not only want to have benefits on products such as NX Cards, but often other things such as video games. The recently released Shaun White's Snowboarding game came with an extra mountain if you bought it at Target. Games such as Warhawk and the most recent SOCOM game on the PS3 came with headsets to give more incentive to buying them in a store, rather than downloading them for a bit cheaper off the Playstation Network.
td;lr Nexon gives more benefits to game cards because of pressure from retail.
Retail stores such as Target not only want to have benefits on products such as NX Cards, but often other things such as video games. The recently released Shaun White's Snowboarding game came with an extra mountain if you bought it at Target. Games such as Warhawk and the most recent SOCOM game on the PS3 came with headsets to give more incentive to buying them in a store, rather than downloading them for a bit cheaper off the Playstation Network.
td;lr Nexon gives more benefits to game cards because of pressure from retail.