| bunchanumbers said: Sony has a closed marketplace and they want to keep it that way. Any serious competition to PS+ will be considered a threat and will be treated as such. Sony is smart to keep EA Access away from PS4. Otherwise fans will start demanding more from Sony with PS+ and that hurts profit margins. |
Yeah it's pretty much this in a nutshell, it isn't quite the same as psn+ in terms of the way it dish's out the games but at the same time it very much is a case of Sony trying to make sure that they keep their closed market closed, they don't want to spend millions and millions getting their hardware into homes and then aim to not profit from doing so by selling content via psn network.
Like I said earlier here, it isn't a great thing for their customer of course, but you have to just accept some things, you likely wont see a steam app on consoles either selling Steam games or xbla or psn on rival consoles selling games as in psn on xboxone or visa versa, it just would be counter intuitive to them selling that closed market hardware design. Much in the same way that years ago you couldn't put a snes cart into a megadrive or visa versa. Software sales and licensing is where the big money comes from on the systems and Sony are keen to a tight enough grip on the 50million customers in their closed market while they can anyway.
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