| Aeolus451 said: He's talking out of his ass. Some of the publishers want traditional home consoles to die off so they can move completely to digital only gaming. |
^ This. Subscription models make far more money in the long run than just selling someone a physical copy of a game. Just look at how 3DS Max, and Photoshop have to be rented on a monthly basis. Photoshop alone used to cost just $500, for the disks. But now you have to pay for a subscription for $10 a month. After five years you've paid way more from the subscription, than you did for a physical copy of Photoshop.
But they can't implement a subscription service to individual games without killing off those pesky physical disks first.
So just imagine having to pay $10 to $20 a month to play your favorite $60 AAA title. Oh look! They just increased the price by a lot and there's not a damned thing you can do about it, because everything is digital now!
