Sony’s position on PS Plus first-day games is well known; none of PlayStation Studios titles will be available on PS Plus the day they are released because it makes no economic sense. Sony has now found a supporter in the form of Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick, who has confirmed that his company’s games will not be launched on subscription services for exactly the same reason.
Sony says PS Plus first-day games make no financial sense
Zelnick is not against putting Take-Two Interactive games on subscription services. After all, games like Grand Theft Auto III – The Definitive Edition, the BioShock Remastered trilogy, and Red Dead Redemption have appeared on PlayStation Now sometime in the past. However, Zelnick told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes customers don’t want to pay for subscription services that offer “day and date with subscription” games:
We have supported various subscription services and are happy to do so. Our skepticism has been about making top-of-the-line console products available day in and day out with subscription. And that makes no sense to us because, economically speaking, we don’t think consumers are willing to pay for it, why would they? – and we can’t afford to turn our business around in a way that doesn’t make economic sense.
Therefore, there must always be an intersection between what the consumer wants and what the publisher is capable of doing. In our opinion, it makes no sense to do this for frontline properties and I think Sony is minimally in agreement with us, because they have said so. It can be potentially great for catalog properties, they are properties that have been on the market for a long time. If their price has been reduced, it may make economic sense to offer them by subscription.
However, Zelnick later added that Take-Two Interactive “does not work based on a person’s opinions, including mine” and that if players made it perfectly clear that the day and date with a subscription was the mode they preferred, “that’s where we’ll do it. be.”
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