Another Puff Piece selling Game Pass.
DRM, is not and was not forward thinking. No matter how many bloggers, influencers, etc say it. Forward thinking is not about stripping away game ownership or killing used games or being connected to the internet just to play a game. GaaS is not forward thinking. You shouldn’t need to pay monthly just to play games.
“Well, it’s just options.”
The tried and true ridiculous statement Xbox fans use all the time. Remember when playing games online was free? Well, thanks to Microsoft’s and their fan’s “options,” we now all have to pay if we want to play games online. Worst yet, these fans seem to ignore or forget, you can’t even play F2P games online on Xbox. Your only option to play ANY game online on Xbox is by paying for XBL. Microsoft keeps leading by trying to get gamers to pay for more services like Windows. Remember when Windows came built with free software? Not anymore. You pay through the nose.
Historically, yeah. Companies took a loss on hardware to sell software. Sony didn’t do that this time. PS4 and PSVR were sold above cost. And I would guess, even Nintendo is selling at profit. Not only that, but both Sony and Nintendo are selling millions of games. Even if their services are making bank, it is their software that’s selling without being in a service. Microsoft just can’t say the same.
So, they became a multiplatform publisher. But try and hide behind the idea of reaching billions of gamers while trying to hold on to the core they have left after this gen. But on Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android products. Sounds like an uphill battle trying to take over their territory.
Which one is better? Buying good games with companies doing their best to make them that you can keep on hardware you buy? Or stacks of services you pay for where a switch can be turned off, and you no longer can play or that game being removed forever because it’s digital?
