| goopy20 said: I know GP is good value man and yes there are some good games on it. But it's mostly older games that are already in the bargain bin, games that bombed but people might still want to play if they're for free and MS's AAA exclusives. Their exclusives are obviously the main reason why people would get a gp subscription. What I keep trying to say is why MS would put all their exclusives on GP from day one? Doesn't that sound a bit strange from financial point of view to give their flagship games for free and put them on Xone too? How is that helping Series X sales and is it really just to compete with PSnow, even though hardly anyone cares about it and Sony didn't promote it all? |
The primary reason people use Gamepass is likely to play 1st party games at launch. However there are lots of reasons to stick around. There are many smaller or indie games that also launch on Gamepass. There is notable content that comes to like Metro Exodus, DMC5, Rage 2, Bloodstained, Kingdom Hearts 3, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, etc. Then you have many older but notable games that vary in age and generation. MS seems to even be using Gamepass to encourage ports of games like Kingdom Hearts and Yakuza. Being on Gamepass means all this content will be more active as well. All of that combined is a couple hundred games and a great incentive to stay on the service.
From a financial point of view, Gamepass apparently has millions of subscribers and that likely generates a lot of revenue. Not everybody is playing games free or whatever, people don't stay subscribed for $1 a month. There are also people who don't want subscription services and keep buying games. Forza Horizon 4 showed solid sales on VGChartz even while launching on Gamepass. Games sell well even while launching on Gamepass but people ignore that.
If you go in the Playstation Store, PS Now is not hidden. You can't miss its existence, they push it pretty good there and show new games regularly added. It's even easier to find without PS TV taking space.
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