OdinHades said:
fillet said:
richardhutnik said:
Heavenly Sigma said:
Plus on PS4 won't be able to offer free games. They will need to offer a different plan for at least a year. |
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.
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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.
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PS+ won't be available at launch, just like it wasn't for the Vita. It'll take 6 months or so before the service kicks in.
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That would make sense, though I was expecting a lot longer like 12 months really, do you have a source to say 6 months or is that your gut feeling like mine is for 12?
