Sony Explains Why 1st Party Games Won't Debut Day 1 on PS Now

[Machiavellian]

Intrinsic said:

Machiavellian said:

I personally believe Sony was not aggressive enough and tried to keep the walled garden a little to high.  It seems MS plans are different which can afford them greater success but it definitely does still pose a lot of risk.  Having deep pockets helps alot as well and with the Bethesda move, it appears all of MS is behind their initiative which gives the games division a huge source of income to make very aggressive moves and take big risk.  I believe that MS isn't late to the party but instead is probably pushing at the right time.  Sony had the right ideal but they could not be as aggressive as MS or have the deep pockets to commit in the same way.  Either way, we will see how this all sort out.  I believe the business model is definitely viable but it will take way more than 15 million subs.  The good thing for MS is that they are generating a lot of buzz with their latest purchase and from another thread they gained 5 million subs since April.  Thats a decent bump without the preorders for the new console.

Oh it's viable, as long as you are willing to spend the billions to make that the case. And MS endgame ere is obvious, its about game pass. They could have just as easily used these billions to subsidize (even more) the cost of the XSX/S, but they are instead spending it to bolster gamepas.

I think you are confused as to who has a walledgarden though. The garden MShas is just difrnt fromwht ou ma be accustomed to. But makenomistake, its also a garden.

No, I am not confused on the wall garden.  What I meant is that Sony only pushed PS Now for Sony systems.  Sony could have pushed their games and PS Now on the PC and invested into reaching every device that could play their games but they needed or wanted to protect the PS hardware brand.  Both Sony and MS and consoles in general are walled gardens and yes Gamepass is as well.  The thing is the traditional gamer that wants to own their games is not as huge as the gaming population in general and MS has come to the understanding that games want the abiity to play as much as they like for the least amount of cash.  With development cost going up and game prices, something like gamepass becomes even more appealing just like Netflix when it first started up.  The deep pockets is where MS has the advantage because in order to make gamepass a true reality, its going to cost.