| bonkers555 said: First of all, we all know that PSN+ is great value to the gamers on a budget. But after reading some of these post here I don't understand how PSN+ makes more money for Sony then Retail games. I bought 14 Vita games and 4 PS3 games this year. Let's say I jump on PSN+ next year for $59.99 and cut my retail purchase in half. You can't tell me that Sony makes more from my $59.99 subscription then my $800 retail games spending a year. |
Most people aren't just going to wait around on the chance that a game that they really want is going to end up on PS+ anytime soon. In most cases, if someone really wants to play game X, they will buy that game within the first few months. Some will wait until it breaks $30 or $40. With a game like BioShock 2, however, pretty much everyone who wanted that game a lot has already bought it; most of the people who play it for the first time on PS+ are those who were on the fence about wanting it or had been somewhat curious but not enough to buy it.
That is why it's great for publishers. Almost certainly, there will be people who play a game on PS+ because it was free who then end up loving that game, thus becoming potential customers of future installments of that franchise. My guess is that when a game tapers off past a certain point then it will actually be a better value for the publisher to put it on PS+ than to worry about whatever bargin bin sales they might be missing at retail. Remember, at retail you have a lot more pieces of the pie going into different pockets. In terms of digital, it's just Sony and the publisher.
Vita, right now, is a different story. Sony is trying to leverage PS+ to sell more hardware, which in turn will sell more software. Their main focus is increasing the installed base first.
