PlayStation's Focus Has Shifted From Game Sales to Actual Play Time, Sony Says
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Translation: ad impressions, microtransactions, and Skinner box tactics.
Oh.
Well here was me clicking on this thread thinking "oh! That seems like a positive shift in mentality"
Then I read your comment.
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Liked your comment so much I just did it there.
And forcing the PlayStation Plus subscription.
I was gonna say they'd make all their single-player games open world bursting with "CONTENT" like an Ubisoft game, but they kinda already did around the end of last gen
So basically they have had really bad sales lately and this is how they justify it to their shareholders.
Or the movement to microtransactions means prolonged time playing will lead to more income, whereas number of sales is completed.
"play time"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user
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