And the flip side is that AAA games take much longer to produce in comparison to Netflix shows, and cost way more too - even something like Game of Thrones cost ~$10m an episode. Compare that to Halo Infinite, or Perfect Dark for example.
Indeed they do cost more and take longer to make. But, then the cost is spread out. I saw a lot of "sonys games cost 150m to make". If said 150m game takes three years to make, then it is costing 50m per year, or just over 4m per month. It is not 150m plus the 3yrs of studio running costs on top. The studios running costs are included in the cost and probably account for north of 80% of the price of said 150m game. Even if we added 100m on top for marketing taking the price tag to 250m, then it becomes 83.3m per year or 6.9m per month.
PlayStation Studios est à l'avant-garde de l'industrie des jeux vidéo depuis des générations. Notre collectif de studios et d'équipes s'étend à travers le monde. Ensemble, nous faisons progresser le domaine du jeu vidéo et nous impactons vos vies d'une manière positive.
www.playstation.com
Looking at that link they have 18 studios, if we said that every studio was the same size and followed the example above (obviously that is not the case but for ease I will run with it), then we would get the following.
18 x 250m = 4.5bn. = 1.5bn per year or 125m per month. Not all studios or games are equal. Some games cost less to make and some more. Like I said, I went with the top end for every studio to get pretty big numbers. I have seen people writing that Sonys subs revenue (PS+ plus Now) was generating over 2bn per year. Even if they used half of that revenue to pay towards their content in this example, it would drastically cut their outlay (I'll let you or one of the laughing emojis do the maths on the rest). As they are still selling the games, then they would undoutedly be making bank from their games. With lost sales from subscribers being almost balanced out by said subcribers who have been helping to pay for these games to be made.
Halo infinite (lol I will use in this case) despite being game pass still debuted at #2 on NPD in December 2021
https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/18/...nfinite-has-strong-debut-on-the-sales-charts/
Sony has every right to do whatever the fuck they want and to defend their position with the wording of their choice. But I don't really believe that they would have to cut budgets if their games were available day one on their service if they had one premium priced tier.
Oh yeah, most of this post wasn't really directed at you or do I expect you to be my sparring partner here lol. You just got caught up in my take for this thread.
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I know that you have all of the revenue figures wrote down ready for your posts, so would you like to post them please? We know that you know just how succesful sonys sub services are.