You're kidding right? Microsoft advertised the hell out of Game Pass and got nearly every game journalist to praise it. None of it was enough to convince most people.
If it makes more people use Game Pass that hurts everyone else trying to sell games on Xbox. So that is going to look selfish to other developers.
or you just play it on PC and you don't have to pay a subscription.
@Michiel1989 Likewise you aren't including refunds either, so it cuts both ways.
Unfortunately Remedy has become a bit of a nasty studio over this past decade, You just need to look at their business decisions and other projects they attempted. They are not pro consumer at all.
I think these articles get things a little out of perspective, Steam Deck has sold around 3 million and Switch has sold 140 million. But if you are browsing certain parts internet you'd think the Steam Deck had sold over 100 million. If articles are going to continue to circulate like this and continue to put the Steam Deck in the same arena then I'm comfortable calling the device a flop.
If we go by your number $60 x 57,000 then take away Valve's 30% = $1,026,000 you get = $2,394,000.
That is not including all the other associated deployment costs, so in terms of clear profit it probably doesn't end up being much. Maybe in the region of just over a million in profit. That is small fries for a company like Sony.
I'm calling that not really worth it. Also there are more than 57k people downloading it from another location that i...
Just as well I stopped buying Ubisoft games long ago, this will only add to their demise. This is what desperate companies do.
You can check any torrent site they are downloaded in their millions, especially Sony games on PC. But Sony doesn't seem bothered.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
Yeah, They've been doing that for a while. Picking and choosing publications. At the end of the day if you do that then don't be surprised if that taints reviewers attitude towards your game.
Fair, but by the end part of the 360 it was a pretty much a damp squid and then they've had two terrible generations of consoles after the 360 and still sticking with Microsoft and calling it your dream console at this point is for the birds. His game launched on Switch first now Xbox. It seems he has some preference for all platforms before PlayStation regardless of financial outcome. That isn't to say they won't do a PlayStation release. Also the UK was pretty much instrumental ...
Yeah, I can't understand it either unless there is some deep routed fan-boyism from the developer, which isn't very clever if you are trying to make a living. Fatshark is a perfect example of a developer sending their games to die on Xbox and they kept doing it.
British guy saying Xbox is his dream console doesn't really sit right does it. 5 generations of PlayStation in the UK and you haven't figured out what console is going to make you the most money. That is the mistake you've made.
The way Sony are doing it though is very suspect, It almost seems like they are trying to tunnel their way out of Steam with a PSN back-end. They should have just launched their own store. Yes this would no doubt upset PC users but you just can't have everything on Steam as that means no market competition. Microsoft and Sony should only use their own stores. That way they can also enforce their subscription fee's (I don't think there should be fee's) like they do on console a...
Sony would probably be selling more if they stopped sending mixed signals about their future. Putting games on PC because you are taking data analytic advice from Microsoft about the future of consoles is folly and has limited their potential sales. Microsoft want Sony and the world to believe that consoles are done as a business so companies like Sony and Nintendo etc can end up serving Microsoft's platform. Remember when it comes to Microsoft "It is us or no one and the three E'...
Yeah, I never bought another Xbox console after the 360. But at the same time you shouldn't find yourself captive to Elder Scrolls if the company behind it is very scummy. I dropped COD after Ghosts and I don't regret it the company has only become worse and I'm glad I never was part of funding that.
All you can eat model has been the biggest fallacy going since restaurants did it in the 90's then stopped. Because you can't eat everything and you end up enjoying nothing trying. Best model is buying the game you want.
How many more million would they sell or keep if it wasn't locked behind a gate fee on console. PS+
Why do console players have to pay this gate fee but people on Steam don't? The answer is they can't implement it effectively on PC. It's not because the money collected on console directly finances server cost either.
So basically Microsoft is going to copy Sony's strategy with PC, talk about a company out of ideas.