Sony’s been stepping up its game by courting the hottest indie developers, showing off games instead of apps, and pushing digital games harder than anyone else who isn’t named Valve. As of today, Steam is the best place for all of your digital goodies, and for good reason. Despite not dealing with the scarcity of retail, Steam’s pricing of games and DLC keep pace with consumer interest. When we hold PSN against Steam, Sony’s platform is more static, and less successful because of it. If Sony wants to go for the home-run with fans, while keeping up with the direction digital games are heading, it needs to see what’s wrong with its pricing model and how to fix it.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
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Digital Pricing will see a big change next generation when everyone will have atleast 500GB(420GB available space). More people will be purchasing games digitaly (on the PS4 anyway, don't see any benefits of purchasing digitally for Xbone), discounts will be more frequent. I'm actually quite surprised that some games on the PSN store or set at a pretty decent price.
Obviously the prices will not be as great as steam prices since I hear they get some crazy discounts esecailly when they do big sales.
I'm hoping to see a wide array of pricing options on games. For instance, I think Knack looks really fun, but at $60 I think it will likely get overshadowed. But, if it launched at $40, I think a lot more people would buy it. If more games are able to come in at $30-40 they could sell more and open the way for sequels or spinoffs, a good thing in my opinion.