RolStoppable said:
It's baffling that there are still people who believe that third party software sales bring in the most money. First party makes way more for Nintendo, meaning a multiplier of around 4 per game compared to what they collect as royalty fee. That's why Nintendo is more profitable than Sony despite lower total revenue from gaming. They can keep selling first party games which have long paid off their development and marketing budgets for their original price or at a mere 33% discount. For Sony, third party software ranks only third in the profit category. The main source of PS profit is PS+ subscriptions followed by microtransactions. Pretty bad when it isn't games that bring in the most profit for a console manufacturer, because it's quite obvious where such a business model leads: Games as a service in order to drive higher subscription rates and more microtransactions. And that's exactly where Sony is going with at least ten first party GaaS titles set to release within the next three years. Jim Ryan's leadership is just about to begin to take its full shape and have my doubts that PS fans will like it. |
Asidde from what @Shatts already mentioned, its not only that its free money with zero effort is that even if they make full profit from first party, compared to the 30% of a third party, theres just so many more third party games. Sony alone, or nintendo alone will not put out as many games as all third party developers and publishers.
and second you mentioned Microtransactions. Who do you think have the most MTX? its third partys. aside from GT sony barely has games that have MTX as they focus on single player narrative games. so again that comes from third parties. are they aiming for more? sure, but at the moment its still third parties.
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