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Intrinsic on 10 September 2020
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DonFerrari said:
sales2099 said:

Both your points I can only say: Gaming subs are very much in their infancy and it’s hard to retrain habits of gamers used to decades old practices of buying their games, whether online or physical. It’ll catch on eventually. And as for sales stats, I am very much aware that Playstations greatest weapon is also intangible (brand power). I said it above, Xbox has to be objectively better in many respects just to be considered, nevermind overtake an ingrained brand loyalty. 

Several other "infant" services got a much bigger growth. Netflix as soon as readily available to several markets got fast growth, PS+ after changing from only discount and give games to paywall for MP grew very fast. People were very fast to accept they wouldn't play MP for free. If people see or think there is better value they will change. So again I won't dispute price or your preference, just that for the market right now GP isn't the value you think it is, in 3 years it may be, but right now it isn't.

As people said, Sony sold 50M consoles for 299-399 USD in the same timeframe MS convinced people to try GP from 1-15/month.

Well said.

Anyone outside MSpushing GP is ignoring one crucial detail. It only has value if you are only interested in MS published or partnered titles. Because those are the only games you get day one on the service. Outside that, any game that comes to the service would have been available for at least 1-3 years in the one market. 

And there lies the issue. Its great and all having lots of games to play, but how many of those games did you care enough for to actually buy when they were available? And if you wanted them that much, chances have you already bought them. Eg. two of the biggest star out games coming to GP in September this year are Resident evil 7 and Destiny 2. Resident Evil 7 has been $20 on the PS store since November last year and Destiny 2 is FREE on the PS store.

Until GP can get games like those on its service on day 1, then the service will never amount to much, even when it has a library that is 500 games strong. Cause by then,I am sure on the PS tore you would see game bundles (4-10 games strong) available for as little as $10 or something like that. And even if sony adopted the same strategy, it too would amount to nothing much since it won't be able to get those their party games on it on day 1.

This is like MS has BC thing all over again, people don't buy new consoles to play old games. I'll say it again if MS comes and announces GTA6 will be exclusive to GP for one year? then be released on the PS5 and PC? Sony might as well just stop making consoles.