Did Microsoft make big a mistake?

[DonFerrari]

Hiku said:

Chazore said:

I feel like time and money are both important to people through all walks of life, not just the wallets.

If I'm being put at the back of the line and told to wait longer, but pay the same price, I'm less inclined to stay in that line for very long and instead go elsewhere, or wait for said product to be sold at a much cheaper price later on down the line (This is what I did for HZD and Days Gone, where I waited for both to go cheap enough, that I could buy them both for the price of what HZD had originally sold at on PC).

But these days, being with how port jobs are, I'm less inclined to pay top price day one for AAA's anyway. Though I'm still not fond of the 2-3yr gaps Sony is doing vs what MS is doing (day and date and across multiple clients/services like gamepass). 

OT: I forgot the time when Sony did say they would try aiming for day and date for their service/MP titles, but I swear I saw that somewhere, so they could very well end up emulating MS with their multiplayer titles being day and date (which makes sense, as they have the longer tail vs a SP game that gets played a few times and player counts drop off).

Time is very important to people.
I'm just saying that publishers who have shareholder are only interested in our money, and will try to release a game when it makes most financial sense to them. For some games/publishers that is Day 1 on some platforms. For others its later. No matter what day it hits the shelves, I wouldn't expect that they are trying to respect our time.

For example, I got God of War Ragnarok on release day. Do I feel that they are respecting my time more than PC players?
Not at all. They couldn't care less about my time. They are only interested in my wallet.

There's that old saying that game companies are not our friends, so I don't take these decisions personally.

That said, people can certainly feel like they want to play a game at a certain point in time. And if they're unable to, do what feels right for them.
Aside from the many problematic PC ports recently, I think where I would have an issue is if it's something like a competetive game.
It's not ideal to jump into a fighting game 1 year later when most of my opponents have 1 year worth of experience over me.

And some games playing on launch with your friends to discuss it can have a net positive impact, but most of time it doesn't matter.