Quote (ShocKioN @ May 23 2013 01:39am)
Posts like these are stupid, isn't any company aiming to optimize profits? Micro$oft is being smart, I mean as a consumer of course the fees and shit sucks but it is what it is.
P$4
see i can do that too
Quote (Yaksha @ May 23 2013 08:39am)
Maximizing profits while alienating a large portion of today's developer population? Remind me again how this maximizing profits?
To add to Yaksha's point, it is something to consider over time. If publishers make more profit now but by doing so drop attachment rate of the console, it will in the end be a loss and thus a bad decision to implement used fee's.
To that note, this is a publisher move. The money would go to publishers, not Microsoft.
And there is no way PS4 isn't doing something similar. PS4 can't be completely unrestricted and X1 is, because then PS4 would just trounce the X1. There is no way Microsoft would make a decision like that if it wasn't becoming the standard.
This post was edited by ROM on May 23 2013 08:03am