| The_Liquid_Laser said: I believe you are oversimplifying. The difficulty is not only in the technology. Microsoft is making all of their first party games available to gamepass on day 1. That means this is a new business model. It's a new business model that very well may crash and burn. Or it may prove to be very successful. But if it does end up successful then that will give Microsoft a hell of a head start against Sony. The first year of a console's life is it's most important. A strong start during the first year means Microsoft will probably be strong for the whole generation. Or a really weak start probably means they are going to have a rough time all generation. |
No oversimplification here bro.
This thing is simple. What is game pass?
Its a subscription service that has a library of games that you can "download" to your console.
That's it. Period. Done.
How does sony emulate such a service?
Expand the already existing PS now, which also allows game downloads mind you (easy way) or just start a new service, hell call it PS Nation, and add games released on PS+ over the last 4 years (that's 96 games) and then go onto add all your first-party releases to the service and every upcoming release on day one and as many third party new releases as you can secure.
Things like these aren't that hard at all. And when sony starts isn't what matters, what matters is what games will be on the service and as far as that is concerned, Sony has by far the better software library. But as I keep saying, sony WILL NOT DO this, because they don't need to do it. But if they see that somehow its doing wonders for MS, then it something they can easily adapt.
Personally, I think you are attaching to much significance to gamepass. It's a great idea, but I just feel that for games, its an unsustainable business model.
