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.
Look leaks suggest he is actually the primary player character but that marketing will spend alot of time trying to downplay that.
In principle there's nothing wrong with this. In reality this game struggles at times on the ps5, now with better optimisation that probably shouldn't be the case but then to go from there to running onnthe switch 2 which is similar innpower to a base ps4.... it is going to run like shit.
It's simple really and always has been, you play on pc expect to need more expensive higher end hardware otherwise you might aswell get a console....
Wasn't 3 a ps4 title though? Whereas this is a current gen only one.
You realise thos indicates that their next xbox will be an xbox branded pc right? And will cost pc prices as a result. So look forwards to a 600 dollar and 1000 dollar version with vast performance differences, with the upper range having similar performance to the ps6 that will be like half its price. The 800 dollar rog ally x makes this abundantly clear.
Except if they do that, they can't really be subsidising the cost of the hardware because the whole business model is you do that and make the money back on the 30% of all game sales. Without that the hardware will cost a fair bit more...
There was a witcher 3 comtroller?