| Hapimeses said: Is that a problem for Sony? |
Hint: if it were, they wouldn't do it. Sony isn't exactly renowned for having the best business acumen, but it's a pretty good bet that they're not cutting their own throats here. It could conceivably become a problem, I suppose, if people stopped buying software altogether and waited for it to come out "free" on PS+. But since most of the games they put up there are either way old or were games that already bombed, I think games that would have been successful at full price will continue to sell more or less as they would have if PS+ didn't exist.
If someone feels like they're ripping off Sony by buying their struggling handheld, an expensive memory card, and paying a subscription fee in order to access "free" games of Sony's choosing, then I can only say, "Good for Sony." But one might as well ask how companies can afford to sell you a hard copy of a game that you can keep forever for a one-time payment of $59.99 (which is something that genius Michael Pachter has actually asked, come to think of it). Or how Valve and devs can afford to sell you games for $2 a pop on Steam. These are just different ways of doing the same thing.
