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Message: [QUOTE="BunnyLain, post: 61206, member: 112643"] I'd argue the NSO thing isn't really a worry for Nintendo, they don't plan on selling their old titles and if they did their audience would eat it up. Anyone with any interest in retro games knows how to get them and play them in a thousand other ways. NSO for games like Tetris 99 and other benefits is how they're playing it. But as for gamepass, it's totally cannibalizing sales. The whole industry has walked itself into a nightmare situation when it comes to pricing and the expectations of the consumer. If I represent any % of people who play games, its a one and done thing. I play Okami like once every half decade maybe and I imagine a lot of people are like that. When the games done there's plenty of others to move onto. CoD has a yearly release for more than just the MP, which if unreal taught us anything, isn't the main reason people buy the game. I'm not even sure if the upfront money from gamepass is good for devs either since you're going to lose day one sales to people who will just check it on gamepass and long tail sales from people that already played it and people that look towards gamepass if its still there. But gamepass isn't even the only way games devs have sort of dug their own grave. With retro games having such a legacy and so many other free titles competing for time on mobiles and from independent art groups that can get by with people supporting them. New games struggle for time and attention, but tie that in with people being able to just wait for a sale or see it bundled in with an offer, then you can see why gamers are less enthusiastic about giving over their cash. I also hate the argument for physical releases now, we all grew up with carts and disks I get that, but since they've had failures and rot. They don't hold the value they once did. Ultimately these are all formats to hold a digital file, the true way of preserving that is to keep a copy of the file and share it around so it can never be lost. So with so many games now days not even shipping the full file on the disk or patching it later, you can see where you still have to trust the service provider to give you what you need. A frustration. I imagine one day steam will have its moment and then everyone will go into panic mode trying to work out how to back up their collection of 1000+ games (which is a topic in on its own) they are about to lose. So long ramble aside, yea I feel gamepass was a misstep by Microsoft, but Sony stated the terms of engagement with their PSN reaction to the 360. Microsoft's response was just overkill. But from the perspective of people who want to play games, hot damn is it a good deal! I get to play the new release for less than the price of a game every month? Really puts an end to the whole fear of missing out. So really I feel its bad for devs, bad for publishers and great for gamers! Until the studios cant pay the devs, we get massive lay offs and then a surge of smaller indie groups again that are all fighting against each other for money and attention. Games are a bit of a brutal business. [/QUOTE]

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