@shinXseijuro yeah they might gain more money short term but it harms their platform. If you know ps games are going to xbox and xbox is say cheaper then why would you buy a playstation. Sony makes most of their money from the cut they get of games sold on their store. This is where Microsoft messed up, they went day and date on pc and games pass and lost half their userbase which lost them the third party revenue. Now they had the pockets to try and 'correct' this buy buying two of t...
On the one hand he isnt wrong. On the other many of the criticisms are totally valid. I do think things have gotten ridiculous lately with the criticism of gsmes particularly by the anti woke mob. I hate zealous stuffing of woke content down my throat as nuch as the next gamer. Lately the tiniest thing thet someone could interpret and call woke however has lead to campaigns against games and films. Often about stuff that isnt new nor is it woke.
As its been rejected sony should just fight the case in full. Cases like this are brought by parasite law firms because they know people will settle to save on the hassle involved.
Which sell for the exact same price as the psn version. Infact often more because a sale on psn isnt reflected by a sale ok the gsmes cards. No the only time they are cheaper is when you buy them from dodgy sites selling stolen goods essentially.
The Gaas thing will continue just hopefully they have realised having their singleplayer studios make those titles doesn't make any sense. There's too much money in gaas for them to not continue to pursue it.
There was a witcher 3 comtroller?
Becauae atomfall was mediocre and wasn't going to sell.
Devs making crappy gsmes they dont think are gonna sell and want an out fron potential failure want their gsmes on gamespass day 1. Or devs MS has offered a boatload of cash to that fully covers their dev costs.
Not as many as MS needed to.
No you won't. Why does netflix cancel stuff after two seasons? Because they have to pay the cast more in contracts if a season is successful and gets renewed. So they cancel stuff to cut costs because their ONLY source if revenue is the subscriptions. The difference with ps plus is the games still need to seell well to be successful. Later down the line they come to ps plus and people who would have bought them dirt cheap or not at all then have a chance to play them, which if they have ...
No, because the games only come to the service after their primary premium sales portion of the games life cycle is done. We are talking years down the line usually. Do you see spiderman 2 on there? Nope. God of war ragnarok recently came to the service but it sold 15 million + units first. Ac shadows isnt on there yet. The older titles are but they already sold millions and millions. There are lots of examples of this. The two services arent the same.
Gamespass is not profitable. They appear to not count the development budget of those day 1 games into the running costs of gsmes pass. If they did , I guarantee there is just no way its profitable.
I dont agree. I think something like ea play or ps plus where the games come to the service years down the line once they've finished their primary sales part of their life is fine. It's a little bit like the movie industry where it has the box office. And if the gap between cinema release and arrival on did and digital and then eventually arrival in streaming services is large enough. Customers will still go and see it at the cinema. Infact for good films the gap can actually be shor...
I suspect this is a test. If they release a really popular live service game on xbox and it still doesn't sell that sends a message both to them to not bother with other live service titles but also to other developers.
Believe it when I see it. So far all the evidence suggests Microsoft have trained xbox owners not to buy games as a general rule. Will be interesting to see how this does.
Yeah but how many of that 170 million bought more than the one game.
@driverx nope, plenty of meaningful sales on psn
Individual movies yes, the movie industry as a whole? No, the movie industry is dwarfed by the behemoth in terms of revenue that gaming is.
Not really, movies that have similar budgets have the box office where if they arent a flop- they typically make all their money back or a profit. Movies have a much wider audience. Games however just have that release and have a smaller market.
You say that but pc is still a potentially attractive option to many, yeah you lose your backwards compatible library but how many people really play many last gen games after 3-4 years of that gen ending? Next gen is coming and if you can get a good pc and play all xbox, ps5 and pc games or buy an Xbox and play most Xbox games on pc too....