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| 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. |
This is not a conspiracy theory, it's actually a fact. There have been leaks of documents related to Sony-Capcom marketing deal for RE Village, where Capcom is not allowed to put the game on GamePass within a year or so. So, yeah, it's a real point in marketing contracts. Of course it has more to do with the fact that putting game to GamePass will make game associated with Xbox brand and marketing deal's main purpose is to make game associated with Playstation here, but still, it's a fact.
