Former Xbox exec Ed Fries has said he’s concerned about Game Pass’s potential impact on the games industry.

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Iwata went onstage and gave a keynote at the Gaming Developers Conference like almost exactly 10 years ago.

 

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"We make platforms designed to demonstrate the high value of high quality videogame software. But, there is a second, entirely different way to consider the value of software. The objective of smartphones and social networks, and the reason they were created, are not at all like ours.

 

"These platforms have no motivation to maintain the high value of videogame software - for them, content is something created by someone else. Their goal is just to gather as much software as possible, because quantity is what makes the money flow - the value of videogame software does not matter to them."

 

He then goes on to say that if you show and tell customers that video games are NOT WORTH ANYTHING..........customers will begin to view video games as NOT BEING WORTH ANYTHING.

 

And you go on neogaf, and that's exactly the mentality you are starting to see from 15 year-old dipshits that post there.

 

Nobody should want the video game industry to turn into the music industry........and nobody should be cheering on Microsoft to try becoming the equivalent of Spotify for the video game industry.

 

This is, effectively, why Sony has to resort to acquiring some publishers in order to block that from happening.

Edited May 25, 2022 by jehurey