bloodborne sold great. It would be fine. Gravity rush sold poorly and I don't believe Sony will ever make another one. So no difference in those two examples.
It is the same. It's all about creating PLATFORMS that people are invested in and repeatedly spend money one. In the long term people spend more on streaming platforms than they do buying consoles. eg a netflix subsciption for 5 years will cost you the same as a console box and a single console will now last you 7 years. So now we have a bunch of streaming services all competing with each other to make the best exclusive film and tv to make their PLATFORM more enticing. The disadvantage here is people have to subscribe to more streaming platforms to watch everything. But the advantage is we are also seeing really good exclusive shows/movies being made which wouldn't exist otherwise eg Mandalorian, The Irishmen etc.
But you can access all those services from any device you choose. i can watch netflix and Disney plus and Hulu on my apple Tv. I didn't have to buy 3 devices to watch them. I can still choose which services I want to give money to, and cancel them, And switch to another and switch back, and still only have bought one device. How would you feel if you could only watch Netflix by buying a Netflix box? Not on your phone or computer or laptop? Just the box? Having choices is a good thing.
That's not the same at all. You have to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a console To have access to its games. I didn't have to pay anything to have access to Disney plus. I was able to use the Apple TV I already have.
Buying a device doesn't really matter here if in the long run the money you are spending on all those subscription services is more then the cost of buying single console device. The latter is in fact better since the console and the games I buy on it will last as long as the device lasts. Whereas all your content will disappear as soon you you unsubscribe from a streaming service.
WIth your Apple TV you paid to have access to the Apple Store and by that to exclusive Apps/Whatever that is available there. Google Play Store ain´t available as far as i know so you miss out on whatever is exclusive there. Sure a Console/Pc is more expensive but that isn´t the point.
There's a difference between worrying about something and explaining something.
All these folks in here so worried about platform-holders' bottom line. It's not like you're on their payroll. Plenty of products, services, media that thrive without hardware/platform exclusive content.
Instead you pay monthly for using their service just like you can pay monthly for PSNow. With a console you simply pay up front and don't worry about monthly streaming costs. What you're saying it is okay to have exclusive games on PSNow but not on the console itself? Basically you're then saying Sony should build a streaming service like Google or Microsoft or otherwise not make any games themselves. Streaming games is not as easy as streaming movies. If Sony could just easily put a top quality streaming service on every platform they likely would.
Of course. But who's to say they'd be better off without then though? There's no case to be made saying they would've been, the games RARE made with MS backing didn't do so hot. Sea of Thieves is the most successful game they've made so far (probably in the studios history).
What's unhealthy is asking corporations to take a loss for your convenience. Do you expect McDonald to sell their product in every fast food places? That would be better for you as a consumer.
