I’m not paying $80 for this game.
I am not a console gamer. But afaik the extra money you have to pay goes not towards Larian. It’s a toll that Sony collects for allowing the game to be released on their system.
I return you get easy to use hardware for a somewhat decent price.Steam and GOG also take 30%. Nintendo, Microsoft, Google, and Apple too for that matter. The only exception is Epic who takes IIRC 12%?
Yep, correct. Steam and Gog charge a provision of 30% on every sale.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo als charge this 30% on Top of that they chage a toll for releasing your game. And they charge you if you want to play online with the console you already payed.Epic is not a good comparison here because they are subsidized by chinese money.
You know all these companies have investments from the same Chinese company, right?
Tencent is a very prolific investor as has been pointed out. The way this is phrased also comes across a bit xenophobic. Please keep that in mind when commenting further. Thanks
FWIW the Steam cut is lower for games that sell well. It’s probably below 25% for BG3 overall.
They could also release a physical copy without the sony extra but why would you bother not being abusive. People will buy it anyway
Nope, they can’t. Because they have signed contracts that allow them access to the build tools for Playstation, and require them to pay the fee in return. There is no way to avoid it, becuase Sony will sue you if your “pirate- relase” a game for Playstation.
If you want to see an abusive party here, your finger must point to the Console developer.
for a somewhat decent price.
Well, that’s the thing: With the additional cost of games, it’s not really more affordable. You cannot use the hardware for anything but expensive games.
With just 5 games, that’s already $100 more than the same games on PC would have cost.
Depending on how many games you’re going to buy, you could spend hundreds more on the PC’s hardware and it’d still be cheaper overall.Depends from how many games you want to buy during the life span of your console. If you are happy with one or two games, and only interested in Singleplayer then go cheaper with a Playstation, Xbox or Switch.
If you need assistance in using a full flegded Desktop Environment you could even buy a few games more because you will never need to call an IT professional to reinstall your Console after you clicked to wrong link in the internet ;)
