Allegedly they’re addressing the former, and I’m not so sure about the latter. I’m no businessman but I’m not sure if Sony’s greater reach would swing things more in their favor until the new service is well-established. It’s entirely possible that more demand due to competition would drive up the prices and make securing game pass deals more difficult which is what I’m dreadin
First-party day one being out is a big loss but I’d be all right with six months after launch for example. It all depends on the pricing and the timing. I think this could be something solid.
I think we just have to wait and see what Sony is doing with this new service revamp. I feel that Sony often has half-assed reactions when their competitors come out with something popular. It’s doesn’t even have to be profitable I don’t think, as long as it is getting good press Sony will try to copy it, even to the point of neglecting aspects of their own popularity.
This may do more harm than good if they are just changing how they market their streaming service to copy Game Pass rather than sell it on its own merits.
Sony doesn’t give a damn. They will simply merge the two subscriptions. Add new levels there.
And people will buy it. How will the caps be bought for $ 55.
And any thing that Sony does and spin enough.
They’ve long been like Apple in this regard.
In 23, they will literally have a game that will sell their consoles to this entire generation.
She has already amassed 17 million views in three months.
By season e3, it will be the most watched game trailer on their channel, with the most likes.
People gotta decide between “MS can easily outbid everyone” and “tbh Sony is still market leader and that gives them more leverage while MS has to pay more for the same, and it’s not always about money so it’s understandable”. Can’t have it both ways.
Reminds me of trying to justify X game series not doing well on the xbox one because it was tainted while having like 4-5 other series be successful on it.
It can be both, with a further *: MS is clearly not willing to outbid everyone on everything or the KOTOR remake situation would have not played loke this. Sony having more clout and MS more money are facts.
Fact is Microsoft has not given any indication that they are willing to outbid Sony for anything so far or for anything big for game pass which I hope is something they do in 2022. Pay up or shut up.
MS CAN easily outbid anyone, but they aren’t going to if it doesn’t make business sense
MS DOES have to pay more for the same, because it’s not really the same. One is paying to deny 2/3 of the market the game, the other is paying to deny 1/3 of the market the game.
yes, the point was that it’s not just about having more money or simply being able to outbid others that makes these deals like so many would like to think. I’ve seen many parrot the “companies love money, so if you pay more, you’ll get the deal” line which is not the reality.
one of them yes. Insomniac for all intents and purposes did the best thing agreeing to Sony, they would continue to remain “underrated” and stale under other publishers, but now that Spidey hit so well and the games are obviously in massive demand, it’s a goldmine both for Insomniac and Sony, Sony with the money and Insomniac because they were the ones who chose that IP to work on. And they have other teams working on other stuff as well, so it’s not like they became relegated to a license studio.
Housemarque is another case, cuz you saw them come out and say they were approached by multiple other big publishers, some from the United States (likely MS tried too), Europe (Embracer), and China (Tencent, NetEase, etc) and at least some of them have enough money and current growing interest to pay big. Tencent outbid Sony on the Leyou deal, no reason to think they wouldn’t have offered insane money to Housemarque, but nah, didn’t matter one bit.
There is no evidence that says this is true.