• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Buying studios wasn’t stupid.

    Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      8 hours ago

      As much as the higher tiers of PSN aren’t as good value as GamePass, it’s certainly lead to higher quality games for Sony’s platform as they can still get sales revenue from shorter or niche games, rather than just looking at a single figure and laying off whole studios.

      I’d much rather pay money for a full game now (and I’ll be honest, my day one purchases this gen are limited to games I’m really interested in), or wait and play on sub later (and it’s about 18 months I think for games to go “free”), than have half a game on sub now and get nickle and dimed for the rest of it.

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      13 hours ago

      Why? they have the most players AND money than they ever did in their existence. Stupid would be suggesting it was a bad idea

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        8 hours ago

        Eh? They’ve been chasing the one-off Xbox 360 high for two generations now, and are nowhere near it. Sony have near full dominance in the console space. Valve have so much dominance in the PC space that they’ve got people to try Linux.

        The aim of GamePass was that people would stream games and not need a console at all, and that just hasn’t happened for them. Their entire gamble was on cloud gaming, and it’s not paid off at all.