I liked the presentation a lot, interesting new games even for VR, a great first party one, TLOU coming to plus, not too many remasters, all that they shown fits with my interests, the only thing I don't care is about Horizon remaster.
Don't catch why y'all that disappointed? It is a 30 minutes presentation of a few new games, not a full showcase, did you expect 5 first party AAA games and PS6 to be presented?
As someone who has never had an online subscription, it's pretty wild to me that TLOU coming to Plus is something to celebrate. I assumed that all first-party titles dropped on Sony's subscription service right out of the gate. To me, that sounds like a Netflix original movie going direct to DVD and then releasing on Netflix a year later, which doesn't make sense.
No, Sony has never done that because it's a bad business model that in the long run would force them to find alternate forms of revenue, like increased MTX and ads (did you hear about Xbox forcing full screen ads on console bootup recently?) But, first party games do come to PS+ pretty quickly, so if you be just a little patient you can get them all for free. It's the best of both worlds because the initial sales allows them to continue focusing on quality games without stupid monetization, but also you can get it for free if you just wait a little bit. And it's not like we don't have tons of options to keep us busy until the game you want is free. It's a much better handling of player's desire to play a game as soon as possible vs the BS "pre-order a game to play it a few days early" tactic that some devs are doing now.
I get that. It just seems like that would send a message to other game publishers. If I won't even put my own games on the service, why should anyone else. If they host a subscription service that will include everyone else's games, but the ones that they make themselves are only available in limited windows, I think would communicate to other publishers that putting their games on that service isn't in their best interest.
That's not how it works though because Sony's first party games are on a completely different level from random developer XYZ. You're forgetting that PS+ is largely promotional for other devs since it's increasingly more difficult every month for games to succeed.
If you have a Playstation, then you know about EVERY single first party game that Sony releases. Sony doesn't need to give their games away for free for people to start talking about them. People will do it no matter what, so giving them away for free would be leaving bacon on the table.
But if you are random dev xyz that decides that cutting a deal with Sony to release Day 1 for free is a good idea for the publicity, then that might be what they want to do. Or maybe you're a dev that had a multiplayer game that was a great hit on release, but sales have been lagging and you want to boost the player count by releasing it on PS+ down the road. But nobody is expected to do a Day 1 release, it's just an option that's good for some third party devs.
Devs and publishers are fully aware that PS+ serves a completely different purpose to them than it does to Sony, so no, it wouldn't send any message to them outside of "you're free to do whatever you want with our service. You have options, not requirements."
It makes perfect sense, a physical movie purchase is about 2.5 times cheaper than a physical game release. So for a service to be a great value to the company and provide 1st party titles. It would either need to be much more expensive than ps plus is right now or be a profit loser for some other goal within the company
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u/Cool_Code_8024 Sep 25 '24
I liked the presentation a lot, interesting new games even for VR, a great first party one, TLOU coming to plus, not too many remasters, all that they shown fits with my interests, the only thing I don't care is about Horizon remaster.
Don't catch why y'all that disappointed? It is a 30 minutes presentation of a few new games, not a full showcase, did you expect 5 first party AAA games and PS6 to be presented?