richardhutnik said:
Why won't the PS4's premium plan offer free games? From what I am seeing, the plan is to get people to sign up for a subscription and have them access a huge library. It will be like what you have with Plus now, with needing subscribing to the service to access. Maybe they get rid of offering content at a reduced price for a premium service. My distinct feeling is Sony is very much interested in an ongoing revenuee stream. |
Because the publishers will be demanding too much money to offer their games for free during subscription. It would put the cost of PS+ through the roof. Since the PS4 would only have just been released, they could only offer "new" games - new games royalty cost to publisher would be a multitude of cost more than "old" games 12 months+ for example.
Think about it, offering game that have just come out for free is lost sales for a publisher, wheras free games as they are now on PS+ are 9/10 going to be games that were never going to be a sale to that PS+ subscriber in the first place.
The cost of developement makes the lions share of the outlay for a game, disk/packaging/marketing/distributor fees is a tiny percentage taken out of the return that the publisher receives.
Not going to happen basically.
