SvennoJ said:
Jazz2K said:
It's only a way to spur interest in their investment. If Sony wants to retain gamers in their ecosystem by releasing a more powerful version of their PS4, MS doesn't care if people migrates to PC or not. What we have here is two different approaches. They will hop on the 4K bandwagon because they don't want to be left behind, they will also hop on the VR bandwagon, on the game streaming bandwagon just like they hopped on the gesture controller bandwagon.
Create interest in their consoles by using newer technology available is imo the reason they create these mid gen consoles. If Sony didn't want people to migrate to PC they wouldn't release PSNow with PS4 games on PC. Same as MS wouldn't come up with the Play Anywhere program. |
Ofcourse they care. XBL and PS+ are cash cows. Gamers that go to PC don't need to pay for online and can just as easily buy games without giving MS a cut in the windows 10 store.
Yet there's always more money to be made including PC as well. MS wants to promote windows 10, hence play anywhere. (which is just windows 10 + xbox one) Sony doesn't have an OS to promote, for them PS Now works. That can actually work anywhere and makes money on its own, while the best experience is still to be found on console.
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I kinda agree that they want most people to pay for both PSN and XBLive because these services generate lots of money and the big goal here would be to convinve PC gamers to pay for these services... which I doubt will ever happen.
But let's not forget they make more money when people buy games and then buy DLCs than just paying for Xbox Live or PSN.
