| TheLastStarFighter said: Yes, it does. Most gamers want to game online and want to have the option to do so whenever they like. On Wii U I can play Ghosts or MarioKart online whenever I want at no extra charge. If I want the same experience on PS4 I will have to pay an extra fee. The vast majority of PS4 buyers are subscribers - Sony has been very open about this and blunt about it being how they are able to turn a profit on PS4 at $400. You aren't getting some amazing extra service for the fee that is now charged on a service that was once free - it's just a hidden extra source of revenue for Sony. |
Nice. I love how you ignored most of my points. Forget about inflation, forget 70 "free" games, forget deals everywhere that make the cost significantly less than $300, forget that there's a diference between paying $300 upfront as opposed to in the course of 6 years, everyone will own the console for 6 years and everyone will want to play online every month.
Yeah, it doesn't work that way.
Also, please provide a source for the bolded. If you make such claims, you need to back them up. What the Sony representative said was that 90something % have connected their ps4 to the internet, not that they have subsribed. Those people might be playing free to play agmes, MMO or single player games. But if they gave a number of subsribers that suggests that the vast majority of PS4 buyers are subscribers please go ahead and cite it. Keep in mind that a certain percentage of that are people who have a + subscription just for the games. Believe it or not some people still don't care about online multiplayer. You might, but not everyone does. For those people, Sony offers the option to never pay extra for it.
"Sony has been very open about this and blunt about it being how they are able to turn a profit on PS4 at $400."
Once again, you seem misinformed. They were able to make a profit thanks to ps+ when the ps4 launched, but the hardware on its own has been profitable for some time now (they haven't specified for how long).
