It sells considerably less. You're again listing games with built in mtxs especially Sea of thieves. What was its sales after you were saying Sony would brag about sales if they were good for HFW. What are the sales for Sea of thieves, FS2020, Halo Infinite, etc?Ehh, nope.
Because inclusion of your game into sub service day one does not mean that game will sold 0 copies. Which is obvious when you go to SteamDB and see how popular are games like Sea of Thieves, Forza Horizon or Flight Sim on Steam despite them being in Game Pass at release. So yeah, you are sacrificing part of sales of your first-party games to build your sub service, but not all sales of course.
Of course PS+ Extra had better dump of content. Because PS Now had shovelware so Sony had so much to catch up that they end up adding games that already are or were on Game Pass eons ago (games like Metro Exodus, Guardians of the Galaxy etc.). But at the end of the day, it's about Day One stuff. Nobody cares that you can watch Witcher in your local TV in 2 years after Netflix airing. You want to watch it when it is out.
So you're just trolling then. Returnal, Demon's souls, Spiderman Miles Morales, Death stranding, Ghost of Tsushima were not already on gamepass eons ago. PSNow had a shitload of shovelware but it also had Bethesda/Zenimax games before they were bought and became first party and released on gamepass later. Nobody cared. Did Metro Exodus, Guardians of the Galaxy become shit games on gamepass because they weren't day one? Did you unsubscribe because there were no first party day one releases this year? That's its main selling point according to you so it must not have been that appealing.Of course PS+ Extra had better dump of content. Because PS Now had shovelware so Sony had so much to catch up that they end up adding games that already are or were on Game Pass eons ago (games like Metro Exodus, Guardians of the Galaxy etc.). But at the end of the day, it's about Day One stuff. Nobody cares that you can watch Witcher in your local TV in 2 years after Netflix airing. You want to watch it when it is out.
You have to sacrifice sales to the detriment of the game or make a GaaS type mtx filled game to make it beneficial for the game. Not doing day one releases especially for big budget single player games with no mtxs is fine though.
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