Sony going third party is an excellent idea for gamers.

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Bandorr said:

Captain_Yuri said:

So? I don't get what any of those 3 have to do with creating games. And yea, they would have to pay a chunk to steam but the benefit would be that they don't have to maintain any of the services which they have to do now. They don't have to pay for server costs, hardware costs, UI upgrades and etc. They also don't have to run the risk of losing hardware sales to the competition everytime a new generation starts and plenty of other benefits.

And they could make their own services if they wanted to... Nothing as big as steam sure but that doesn't prevent EA and etc from creating their own and profiting from them. And the same with controllers. Not sure how marketing would get affected though.

So I don't get what would make it impossible to make the games they make now?

And there are bundles like that on PC. We have GPUs, CPUs, SSDs and sometimes keyboard/mouse having game bundles. But again, I don't get why not being able to give away bundles would matter to them...

Games cost money. Where do you think that money comes from?

They wouldn't be able to make money from Hardware, controllers, online, Marketing, Bundling, or fees. Plus they would have to take a hit to steam.

Oh and any fees that make from the "physical" versions of the game.

Marketing would get affected because what would you market? You couldn't market ANY multiplat games. "Buy RDR2 on Sony" oh wait..no thats PC. You would only to market your exclusive games. The point of exclusive games is for people to buy the hardware. To get invested into the eco system - that is gone now. So that leaves nothing to market or advertise.

From game sales? Not sure if it's a trick question or?

And they also wouldn't be spending money on those things either... They would have to make the hardware, controllers and etc but by going third party would mean they wouldn't have to make those things and just focus on games. And yea they would have to take a hit on steam but again, they wouldn't be maintaining the services such as the store front so... They wouldn't be spending money on such things like that either.

Huh? I am pretty confused as to what we are arguing about here. They would market their own games like everyone else and I don't see how that's a bad thing... Yea they wouldn't market blah game being exclusive but that would mean they are saving money by not spending marketing budget on other company's games...