Nintendo's success with the Switch both a blessing and a curse?

[KLXVER]

RolStoppable said:

KLXVER said:

True, but Game Pass is not very good for anyone in the industry except for MS and publishers of failed games that MS might give a very small share of their profit. Its great for gamers at the moment, but look at how much better games sell on the PS4. Even with the install bases considered, its still insane. 

I very much doubt that gamers will care about the profits for developers. Steam has been very popular for ages and it's just one big story of Valve screwing over one developer after another with a marketplace where steep discounts are common and basically expected by a lot of Steam's customers.

Well Steam and Game Pass are two very different things. Even if you do a discount on Steam, you still get money and you do have the choice of how much to discount it. Im not sure how Game Pass work, but Im guessing you get paid a fee upfront for your game and that's it. Now it doesn't matter how it fares and the physical and digital sales of your game will tank. Then people will just expect games to show up on Game Pass and not bother to buy games new. That will hurt MS a lot. I don't think they can support Game Pass and have a platform for third parties to thrive.