Kyuu said:
"And no, Sony's version doesn't count as it doesn't include all first party, modern releases." The models you're talking about and the one Dulfite is envisioning and being hinted by Game Pass aren't the same thing. Adding in a bunch of old games that a few people are buying at 30% of their launch prices, or a small percentage of AA/AAA games day and date, is perfectly fine and sustainable for a giant like Microsoft. But the more new games they add, the less financial sense it'll make. This fact is already given away by Game Pass costing way more than Playstation Plus. You don't need profits and revenue breakdowns to know that much. Some conspiracy theorists are already talking about Sony "paying publishers to keep games off Game Pass" as though publishers are dying to put them there. That's not what's going on. We don't yet have enough information to know the exact implications of Game Pass. Hopefully Microsoft will stop shying out in sharing their gaming division data to give us a real sense of what's happening. Most sales trackers no longer sharing sales splits is complicating things as well. |
You are missing the point, when PS plus launched it was great for consumers and stupid for Sony because it would only lose money in the end I doubt their are many left who think it is/was stupid. This are literally similar things that are said about gamepass/Epic game store etc. The scale is just different.
Isn't the bolded part exactly the reason why you are here in the first place? You are just one of those guys who in the past would say that publishers and devs just make exclusives for PS4/PS5 and sony is not paying them to not release on other systems. Meanwhile you got proven wrong when we clearly can see the contracts made with bethasda and Sony so you move your goal posts to 'Sony does not try to get devs/publishers away from gamepass'....
