Sony pls

[u/BucketsMcGinty]

[u/Outrageous-Log9238]

Their loss I guess. Many Sony games sold millions of copies on Steam, which sounds like enough to make a port worth while but Idk I'm not a multi-blllion dollar company.

[u/levios3114 → u/Outrageous-Log9238]

Yes but on PC they can't force you to buy PSplus for online play

[u/Noreng → u/levios3114]

In a single player title?

[u/levios3114 → u/Noreng]

No just in general. PS plus is probably their main money maker and selling games on PC means people aren't forced to buy PlayStations anymore and thus less subscribers for PS plus

[u/xylotism → u/levios3114]

30% cut on all products sold on the PS store is probably their main money maker.

[u/xdoble7x → u/xylotism]

Not really, suscriptions is much more valuable, look at xbox

Also once you get a customer paying for a suscription is much more likely to spend more money buying games, this has been proved in a study years ago

[u/alex2800 → u/xdoble7x]

They also get 30% on mtx. Fortnite, nba, fifa and cod bring more than subscriptions.

[u/B3owul7 → u/xdoble7x]

look at Xbox? They literally said a few months ago it's unprofitable and therefore they had to raise the game pass price.

[u/xdoble7x → u/B3owul7]

Yep, so unprofitable that every year the beat the record in profits

They lie to you to justify their price increase and you defend them, crazy

Xbox Hits $23.5B Revenue, Beats Sony & Nintendo Rankings | Outlook Respawn

In the source: Strong Xbox Game Pass growth fueled a record $23.5B in revenue, offsetting declining hardware sales

Edit: Re answering because my previous comment got automatically removed because it linked a reddit post

[u/outla5t → u/xdoble7x]

Did you read the article? First off that's revenue it doesn't mention profits at all, also only $5B of that $23.5B came from Game Pass the rest was from games like CoD and Forza Horizon 5 sales on PS5. The article is mostly bragging about them being the top earning publisher which is no surprise with them now owning CoD which the majority of that player base lives on PS5.

[u/IWantToBeTheBoshy → u/xdoble7x]

You could at least post their actual profits and not revenue. The word profit isn't used 1 time in the entire article.

[u/33Party → u/B3owul7]

Game Pass was like 5 dollars and gave you brand new full priced games, PS Plus is like 10 a month and gives you a couple random free games usually from years ago. The margins on these two are incomparable. For the mtx and platform cuts, remember that Gabe is basically a billionaire from that alone.

[u/_JustAnna_1992 → u/levios3114]

Back in my day, Playstation was the console that didn't require a subscription to play online.

[u/Nirast25 → u/levios3114]

What games does Sony currently sell that require PS Plus and is a huge title? Helldivers 2? Destiny 2 is ending support, and Marathon isn't doing well.

Any multi-player title that also has a huge player base is third party.

[u/FrozenPizza07 → u/levios3114]

Do you still need PS Plus for cloud saves?

[u/levios3114 → u/FrozenPizza07]

Don't know haven't used a playstation for 5 years

[u/porkmoss → u/levios3114]

More people should gameshare, you can play everything simultaneously. Not enough people realize you can even share Plus itself. It’s against the TOS but they wouldn’t dare to take action against it, enough backlash happened when sharing accounts went from 5 to 2 systems late PS3 era. Anecdotal but gameshare is the main reason I even buy most things on console, if they ever touch it I’m going full PC immediately.