@MatPiscatella
The big evergreen games, and the huge live service games with deeply embedded social hooks, are gravity wells for player attention, time and spending. New games big and small face a daunting challenge trying to break through. Services like Game Pass and a revamped PS+ will help.
Why don't more AAA games launch day 1 on sub services? They should. But high dev costs and the marketing budgets needed to try and break through this wall of evergreens require aggressive sales targets to get through greenlight. Targets that often are too aggressive, or overly so
So folks are forced into 'what we need to believe' scenarios for AAA publishing, bets that sales performance will be on the higher end of the possible spectrum, or even outlier. This would require those targets be met for sub service inclusion.
The choice is obvious then. Do the traditional release, see if the game is lightning in the proverbial sales bottle. If so, great. If not, then investigate ancillary revenue streams like sub service inclusion or more traditional discounting, among other means.
Including a game on a sub service is something not everyone can or wants to do. There are thousands of games released every year, and only a select handful make their way to these services. So blanket statements of sub services good or sub services bad are missing the point.
These services are another tool in the belt for trying to get games funded, released, and to help them break through the barriers of the big evergreen titles.
And new games coming into this market need all the help they can get to try and do this.
otes on the list:
-Survey, ran monthly
-Ages 13+, gamed in month
-Approx 8k rotating sample
-Measured on % that played
-All surveys have a range of error, this no different
-List is not a value judgment on any particular game, player, or anything else
Getting mad about some video game list from someone you don't even follow is not a good use of your time on this Earth. Just sayin. Why not use that time and energy to go play games you like or something idk.
@ChatonPEL
Very interesting
Could you share how the panel is composed ?
number of people, age group