Sony going third party is an excellent idea for gamers.

[Chazore]

Azuren said:

Origin did so well, too.

Origin is still alive

 

Sony knows that if they were to release a Storefront that people would only use it to purchase their exclusives, as most are already heavily invested in Steam. And if people aren't buying their games on Sony's storefront, than all that cheddar those games would have made being exclusive suddenly vanishes. I know many PC gamers find it "anti-consumer", but their demands would cost Sony, not make them money like they want to think it would.

You act as if you definitely know that there is only a single path in the future, as if everything is already predetermined. You forget that people choose all the other clients out there, but even then you'll set up the rest to being enxt to useless because they aren't magically churning out CoD sales (but I laugh at that since mobile sales dwarf CoD and the console market altogether, so we should use that instead if we're going to compare massive to small).

Their demands have made others money so far, rather than cause supposed massive failure rates of anyone daring to pander to that market.

 

And Call of Duty was simply an example of a AAA multiplatform that Sony wants people buying on their console. In reality, this extends to ALL games. Sony makes money from every title sold on their platform, and their exclusives exist only to bolster the population of the platform, not necessarily to make money on their own.

No, you're basing CoD as something of an ip that generates insane sales, rather than anything else out there. You are using a franchise that is multiplatform (not even exclusive at this point) and it's multiplat sales vs another market and asking said market to generate the numbers you think is needed for that market to be "viable".