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| Landguy said: The "start something bad" isn't about consumers. It's about making their service less valuable for them. EAA and the many other versions that will come from the other publishers only devalue the PS+ service. MOST electronics manufacturers make very small margins on their electronics nowadays - Sony included. Those margins are consistantly getting smaller all the time. Sony is looking at this in the long term. They want to hook you into their proprietary system just like Apple or M$ or Google. They know that once you amass a big enough amount of content, you are stuck keeping their service so you don't lose your content. IF they allow EA or Origin or whoever to give you your content, you are no longer stuck with their proprietary system. You would be a free agent. THe likely scenario in the future, your EA account will allow you access on any device to your EA content. If that happens, your ties to M$/Sony/Apple/Google are eliminated. Sony is pointing at the trees, hoping you won't see the forest... |
Is it about consumers, as you just pointed out, if it's less valueble to Sony they have less to offer consumers and therefore the market is split and divided, instead of paying $50 a year and every developer gets a hand in the pocket, you pay $30 and only EA does. You even used MS as one of your examples of what EA could take from and they are supporting this. What is it that MS didn't have an issue with? Their own Games for Gold is also being undermined.
To use your analogy, Sony (and MS) have the forest already, it's EA who are dividing it up and charging you more to look at it.
Hmm, pie.
