sales2099 said:
Barkley said:
"Ignore 3rd parties and imagine Nintendo starts their own GP but only for their 1st party games. Can you see how profitable they would become with 25-50m subscribers even if nobody bought a physical game ever again?" - Yes because 100% of the money would be going to them.
"EA seems more than happy with theirs at $2.50/month." - EA charges $15/month for EA Play Pro, the sub that gives you access to all there games day one. Same as UPlay+.
You are talking about profit because you say 60m subscribers means they can buy Zenimax every year, they can't because all the money from those 60m subscribers wouldn't end up in there bank account for them to spend. You even mention profit next.
"In regards to profit, 10m subs @$15 ($1.8bn/yr) is equivalent to selling 30m full price, digital, first party games every year ($60/$60)."
In terms of revenue, not profit..... $1.8 billion in gamepass sales does not give them the same money as $1.8 billion in first party software sales
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It’s not our place to worry about things like this. MS has big boy accountants and teams that have a road map for GP growth and profit. It’s our job to play video games.
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Yea I honestly wonder sometimes if a subscription model for gaming can work out well as far as profits. Are there enough gamers interested in doing it? We know it works for TV cause everyone watches TV. Not everyone games enough to want to add a monthly cost on their bills for it. Hell most people I know only play COD or the FTP games. Will see I'm interested to see how it all works out. I personally have no interest in subscription model I don't even like it for TV. I download all my media on a media server. I don't like how they add and remove things whenever they want.
Like yesterday tried to watch the mist. No subscription service currently has it streaming. Well not Hulu or Netflix anyways. Luckily I had it on my media server. Booted up Kodi and watched it.
