Keep cheerleading this all you want. It's going to take away the quality of the industry.
These subscripted fees are
1 going to become more expensive
2 game quality is going to drop even further
3 GaaS and micro transactions will become even more of a thing.
Let's see which one of us is right when the dust settles.
No need to wait; results prove you're already wrong.
Usually. Forza is an example of one that doesn't.
IIRC wasn't it just the older version getting delisted? You can still play it, you just have to buy it from the store or from Steam.
Which kind of works against one of the other fears WRT services like GamePass: lack of access to games after so and so amount of time. Subscription is just one of multiple means to play the game, especially when it has digital and physical editions sold in store retail chains and multiple digital storefronts.
I wish Netflix's competitors were dead. But, unfortunately, to watch everything I want I need Netflix, Hulu, Disney +, HBO, Amazon Prime, etc.
THAT'S the future for gaming and it's gonna suck.
If you think that's bad, you should've tried being a hardcore gamer in the mid '90s. Wanted to play everything? Pony up for a SNES, Genesis, Jaguar, 3DO, CDi, Saturn, PS1, N64, PC and some visits to the local arcades on top of that.
You don't need every single system, though, and you don't need every single subscription service. Realistically the vast majority don't even watch everything available; they have their small handful of shows and mainly stick with those for a period of time, and chances are those shows are on the service most people have anyway because they tend to be old shows like Friends and The Office.
i can go on. you sound so angry for some reason
I think they're just saying the majority of gamers, when you include the wider mainstream market, aren't buying one for that reason. Which is statistically true; even in their best year to date Sony 1P games accounted for only 18% of total PlayStation division software revenue.
That basically means on an average, at best just one out of five PlayStation owners seem to buy one for the 1P games/content. It's likely the same ratio with Xbox if not skewing a bit further even to favoring 3P content in terms of the ratio. Nintendo's the outlier.
Aside of that though, obviously there are people excited for Forbidden West, and for very good reasons. Same with GT7. But it's still important to keep in mind what percentage that might be when considering the entire PlayStation install base.