| adriane23 said: Soooo, why was Bioshock Infinite put on PS+ so soon? And then how do you explain Gamefly? Your logic doesn't hold up. |
Like I wrote:
| mutantsushi said: This isn't about Sony's own agenda. The offerings for PS+ are based on what ALL publishers (and indy devs) will accept. |
It's up to the publisher what goes on PS+, they cut a deal with Sony to get a certain cut.
If a AAA game is still selling heavily, they have little reason to, if it isn't selling well, then they might as well deal with PS+.
I wasn't the one who framed the issue around a specific period of time delay, I expressed the issue as based on profits vs. cost base,
although you can GENERALIZE (not the same for every game) that it roughly corresponds to a certain period of time, on average.
Indies have much lower cost bases, that's why you see them going DIRECT to PS+ when that is almost unheard of for AAA titles.
If Sony really wanted to promote PS+, they could offer more $$$ to make it more worth to bring a more recent title to PS+.
I'm sure Gamefly is not ideal in eyes of many publishers. But nobody can stop them from renting discs out.
As far as DVDs, e.g. Netflix does deal with studios more to accomodate them re: time-line, but that is because
they are much more mass market and cannot reliably get sufficient stock if they don't have cooperation of the studios.
They did not do so when they first started out. Gaming is way more niche, and getting stock of games is easier.
