| Sogreblute said: Day one releases will slightly hurt their console sales, but it's made up with the profits of their PC ports. If anything it will benefit Sony more. Lets say a small percent will buy a PS5 for the few exclusives it has, Sony would lose more money because that person wouldn't buy anything else on the system and not subscribe to PS+, no 3rd party sales, no microtransactions, etc. If Sony did day one releases and those people won't buy a PS5 anymore they still will get their money through their PC ports, and be able to sell to the millions of PC gamers that refused to buy a PS5. |
I don't think this is the demo that is important: it's the demo that moves away because they can get the exclusive day 1 on PC alongside their MP games, which provide a larger portion of the gaming pie.
For Q325 financials, Sony made more money off mtx and services on console alone than they did physical and digital sales on console + everything from non Sony consoles. If exclusives sell to these MP folk (which they most obviously do), then keeping them is more important than losing them for a PC market (where they don't make anywhere near the same from mtx and services as they would their own hardware and ecosystem.
