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With the increasing popularity of services like PS Plus and Game Pass, Sony should bank on more first-day releases to have more of an impact on its market.
Yeah but they won't do that with their 1st party titles because they would lose out on Money by putting them on PS+.
The reason why i love Gamepass is because MS is footing the bill for the Xbox Division when it loses money on putting their 1st party titles on the service. But eventually they will stop footing the bill and raise the price of gamepass way higher so that customers start paying properly instead of the cheap price now.
When that day comes I'm cancelling my Gamepass subscription unless i can find a cheaper way for gamepass like a lot of those 1 euro deals I had be taking advantage of.
Is it demonstrably provable that they would lose money?
I'm asking because I don't have the data to prove either way and I'm not sure anyone here would.
But if you believe everyone on N4G, all PlayStation owners like to own physical copies of their games and like to fully support PS Studios by giving them a "sale". :D
More seriously though, I've pointed out on many occasions and people still don't understand - when somebody buys a game for $70, Sony doesn't get $70, the retailer does. The retailer buys the game off a distributor (usually) for around $45. The distributor buys it from the publisher (in this case, Sony) for ~$30. And then there's production and marketing to take into account.
Having a game available on digital distribution ensures Sony gets 100% of the cut (for first party games at least).
Sure, one month of PS+ will be less than the ~$30 Sony might get for a physical copy. But most people aren't going to pay for just one month. I guarantee that the majority of subscribers are annual and have auto renew on. Plus the bet that MS is taking is that more and more people will end up subscribing as more content is made available. Whether that bet works out, time will very much tell on that. But with that all considered, I ask again.. is it definitely 100% true that they will make less money? I'm not convinced myself.
What are you talking about, this isnt hard to understand? Newsflash giving something away for free that you normally would sell at full price will result in a dramatic loss in revenue.
Digital Copies are like 90% of the way games are purchased now I think so sony or Microsoft are for sure pocketing 100% of the money from their digital stores.
Is it demonstrably provable that they would lose money?
I would say yes to that. You only need to look at streaming services like Netflix or Disney+ or any of the other services right now. They are lossing cash ATM in huge amounts.
Having gaming go the same way will end up destroying the industry
@arkard it's nowhere near 90% digital. Please forget about that one article that had mobile and PC gaming included, which of course neither can be physical.
Gamepass is horrible for developers, why would you want the second biggest publisher to follow the business practices of the third biggest publisher. Clearly whatever Sony is doing works for them and for their third parties.
Phil Spencer following the Netflix model for video game releases has seriously hurt this industry and warped the perspective of many consumers.
Honestly I agree, but there still exists the issue on containing the playerbase, which Xbox has been strengthening, very slowly.
"Clearly whatever Sony is doing works for them and for their third parties."
Indeed. That´s why they gave its subscribers a whooping 40% increase while offering some crappy inferior service in return. They know they can get away with it.
Imo, whatever Xbox is doing, is working for US, gamers!
Gamepass is getting many indie, AA and AAA day one releases from third party, because Xbox is willing to do it themselves in the first place, unlike Sony who believes their games are too special to be release day one even in their most expensive PS Plus tier. They will not allow even their old games to STAY on PS Plus as we saw with Spider- Man.
Right or wrong, MS is getting more profits out revenue than Sony, Gamepass´s quality is the very reason why it now have more than 30+ Million subscribers while both PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra accounts for only 14.1 Million subscribers.
After that egregious price increase, Sony better start and offer better and newer games than they had offered until now, or they´ll start and lose subscribers.
I hope things to change for better now that Ryan is gone.
Yeah man, Xbox is so great for smaller developers.
Oh wait what are these articles stating otherwise.
https://www.videogameschron...
https://videogames.si.com/f...
https://www.vice.com/en/art...
But who cares about developers if it's better for "US, gamers!" Right?
Yeah, the PS+ price increase sucks and I don't like it either, I'm not going to defend every dogshit decision Sony makes, but the Gamepass model isn't the way to go.
Now is the time to get yearly ps plus at 25% off, people.
My ps+ runs out in June as well good timing.
will be adding another year to my PlayStation plus i always worth getting it when a sale is on.
I got GoW Ragnarok for $27 on cdkeys if anyone is looking for a deal
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