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

[KLXVER]

RolStoppable said:

KLXVER said:

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.

PS+ and Games with Gold have been around for a while and they haven't really changed anything. Besides, nowadays third parties do all sorts of DLCs and microtransactions, so the base game being "free" is a good method to bait people into spending money.

Yeah, maybe. Didn't really look at it that way. Good point.