Azzanation said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
EA Play is not even close to GamePass, and EA doesn’t have the studios or games Microsoft has.
EA games come to EA Play long after release, when they are pretty much done selling and are heavily discounted. Xbox games launch day one into the service.
Why would Sony, for example, want a service in their ecosystem where a game like Elder Scrolls VI will be available to subscribers day one included in a small monthly or yearly fee? At best Sony would get a small piece of every GamePass subscriber, where as they get a good piece of every copy sold, whether physical or digital. It also disrupts the sales of their own games.
It’s also not as good a deal for MS. They can subsidize the loss of revenue by games on GamePass selling less by getting the full piece of the pie of the actual sold copies, plus all the monetization, plus a piece of every third party game and MTX on their store. Not to mention XBLG. In your scenario they now get no Gold revenue, they don’t make anything from third party sales, they now have to give Sony a piece of GamePass subs, and they have to give Sony a piece of every game and monetization transaction.
Doesn’t add up for MS. They make way more money as a hardware company, even a third place hardware company. |
GP doesn't have to be exactly like EA Play. EA Play is just proof that you can make a service with just 1st party games and place that on as many platforms as possible without spending billions on Hardware. If Sony wants MS games than they will need the service, otherwise Nintendo and PC will take the deals which would make those platforms look more attractive. |
That’s great, but I’m still waiting for the part where it makes financial sense for Microsoft to give up loads of revenue to make less revenue. Yes, Microsoft saves on hardware in your theory, but they lose out on all the revenue I already mentioned.
People are too short sighted and assume if you aren’t in first place in console sales then you must be losing money. This has to be the only industry where this mentality is so rampant. Again, Microsoft makes loads of money off of Xbox, even with the console in third place.
