Reality, Console Industry has become Stagnated.

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EricHiggin said:

Soundwave said:

Either that or they will force you to pay some other way, ie: locking content behind DLC paywalls that normally would have been in the base game and getting your $$$ that way. 

This is why all these companies are in love with the GAAS model, they don't want to just get a one time payment of $70 anymore, they want to shift the industry to something where you pay $100-$150 for a game but they yank you along for a few years to get that extra money. 

Except SNY drops GoW Valhalla DLC not all that long ago and gives it away for free, then lays off almost 1000 people and closes a studio.

With moves like this, is makes more sense why they aren't charging more for blockbuster AAA though.

They should have charged at least a reasonable price for Valhalla and they could totally charge $80 for the biggest AAA games.

Those decisions were probably made a while ago, recently now Sony themselves came out and said they must invest more into GAAS titles, so that basically tells you where their head is at today. 

Their new president is talking all about how they must get higher margins and wants more multiplatform games.