asqarkabab said:
NATO said:
> free games every month > cloud services for savegames > online services, matchmaking, dedicated servers etc > share/upload screenshots and recordings > higher discounts on games as part of the subscription > all for sub $45 if you shop around
Without giving service? right, the only company that's vaugly true for at this moment is Nintendo.
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Games the games they give are either old or are in manys collection and you dont own them they loan it to you
And the other services are not that great and not worth the money they have to be free and not behind a paywall
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Games bought at a discount from the store are kept even when your subscription ends, for ps4/xbo
Games obtained through ps+/gwg can be played as long as you want, so long as your subscriptions active, for ps4/xbo
Dedicated servers, cloud storage, sharing and uploading screenshots and gameplay, as well as maintanence for infrastructure for PS4/XBO is expensive to run, and adds significant value to the systems as a whole, and thus players that want to take advantage of those services do so under a subscription model.
PS4/XBO owners get way, way more for their money than Nintendo owners will be getting, they don't even need to download a game during the month it is up on the storage, they can simply add it to their library and download it and play whenever they want, as long as their subscriptions active, Nintendo players on the other hand, get timed access to extremely old games, then have to pay to keep playing once the month changes and the free-access game changes, you cannot build up a library of games to play whenever you wish.
And there in lies your issue, you are trying to downplay by insisting that all three services are not worth the money, but in reality, for many xbox and playstation gamers, xbl and ps+ respresent significant value for money, and allow them to build up a sizable library of playable games, where as the same cannot be said for Nintendo.
And that's before you factor in the cross platform nature of XBL/PS+, as those free games are offered across multiple systems (360/xbo, ps3/psp/vita/ps4).