only777 said:
MATHS TIME! So let's compare a made up AAA game. Game pass has 10 Million users. Source: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242004/xbox-game-pass-10-million-subscribers-microsoft-q3-2020-earnings Let's say 70% is paying full price of $10 a month. Many users are using the service through $1 deals, etc. This is $70,000,000 per month. so $840,000,000 in a year. Let's say this Sony sells 10 million copies in a year at $60 a copy. That's $600,000,000. So it looks like Microsoft make more money right? Wrong. Sony make another AAA game in the same year and that's ANOTHER $600,000,000. So now we have $1,200,000,000. Microsoft however are still going to earn $840,000,000 in the year as both their AAA games are included in one price. |
And he is just ignoring that PSNow have 2.2M subs, so it would make this gap on GP 8M. And if we consider that PS+ have 44M subs versus probably 20-25M of Gold Subs then it is certain that on services Sony makes much more money than MS.
From what I remember there were some years that PS+ made more money than Xbox as a whole.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."