Sony has followed on from Xbox last week by reporting the latest earnings results for the PlayStation brand, and interestingly from an Xbox perspective, there's a little note discussing the success of MLB The Show 21.
The company says that MLB The Show 21's launch on "other platforms" has followed on from the success of releasing PC versions of various first-party PlayStation games such as Horizon Zero Dawn and Death Stranding. Additionally, the game "contributed significantly to sales and profit during the quarter", thanks in part to strong add-on sales.
Sony hasn't gone into detail about sales of MLB The Show 21 on PlayStation compared to Xbox, but it was recently revealed as "the fastest-selling title in franchise history with more than 2 million copies sold across all platforms".
It was also suggested that an extra two million players have been enjoying the game via Xbox Game Pass, so we'd hazard a guess that the "strong add-on sales" are likely taken up by a good portion of the Game Pass audience.
It wasn't actually Sony's decision to release MLB The Show 21 on Xbox Game Pass (that was the work of the MLB specifically), but it looks like everything's worked out for the best, so hopefully this becomes a permanent thing.
What are your thoughts on MLB The Show 21 being on Xbox Game Pass? Let us know down below.
[source sie.com]
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One of Xbox's biggest games of 2021 is a PlayStation game and one of PlayStation's biggest games of 2021 is an Xbox game. Everything is as it should be.
Jim Ryan: “Putting games into a subscription model on day one, for us, just doesn't make any sense,”
Really Jim? 🤔
@Bdbrady I'm having a hard time thinking of what the Xbox game is...what is it?
Eventually, I see a game pass competitor coming to PlayStation.
@Vertpin The Show on Xbox, Death Loop on PS.
I'm hopeful this pushes PlayStation (and Nintendo) to have comparable offerings. Hopefully a rising tide lifts all boats.
@Bdbrady I’m a bit hesitant to agree with you. Death Loop began as an exclusive game developed for PS, only for the developers to be bought out by Microsoft and henceforth a Microsoft game. The other thing being that it’s not out for another month. I am really excited to play it though!
@Vertpin Deathloop did not begin as an exclusive game for PS. When it was first shown at E32019 it’s platforms weren’t listed.
Do you see any Platforms listed? https://youtu.be/MXv5IDp8y74
The game was multiplat until Sony swooped in. You can tell here where before Ms bought Bethesda they were already noted as being “timed” https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-06-12-bethesdas-deathloop-and-ghostwire-tokyo-will-be-timed-ps5-exclusives
@mousieone Hrrrm, yeah, you raise a good point. I thought it had begun development as a Sony funded game. A proposition I have is that it was in development for both consoles, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. However, when Sony secured the rights, it was so that it would remain exclusive for one year upon release, and then the (still developed) Xbox and PC versions would come out.
Regardless, it is now in fact a Microsoft property, so I do retract my initial claim. However, we still haven't seen sales figures post release, but I do believe it will do decent enough! I'm pretty thrilled to play it, Arkane got me hooked since Prey.
@Vertpin eh. I can see where you’d make the connection. Just like technically MLB published The Show on Xbox, not Sony. Its semantics, but when we remove that it’s basically what @Bdbrady is alluding to. Either way it’s a pretty crazy reality
@mousieone no worries!
i was going to buy a ps5 for launch cause of the Show and get a series X later on... but when i heard The Show was coming to Xbox i decided to wait for a redesign of the ps5 as i think the think it is hidious and it wouldnt fit in my entertainment system
@MaccaMUFC I can't tell if you're joking or not 😆 but what he said does make sense. Game Pass is sustainable for Microsoft because they can rely on other highly profitable revenue streams unlike PlayStation. Even if PlayStation comes up with a Game Pass competitor, it's unlikely to reach the value offered by Game Pass.
Of course it doesn't make sense for them to publish games day one on their own subscription model, but not if it's for Game Pass 😉.
@Bdbrady Did you just quote from Mark Cerny's The Road to PS5? 😆
So 2 mill sales on consoles and 2 million downloads on Games Pass. Who knows how many people bought add ons for Game Pass (personally I think it would be lower versus the sales as majority of game pass likely people just trying out the game as oppose to fans of the game being the ones you purchased it).
Wonder if Sony look at that as 2 million people who could have bought the game and they've lost money on it? I'm assuming Sony made hardly any money on the Game Pass side of things? Doesn't most go to the MLB? Does that mean Sony might feel Game Pass makes even less sense than they did before?
I'm guessing at about £50 a game for 2 million copies that would be losing out on potential £100 mil (maths not my best though). I'm pretty sure they won't be getting more than 10% of that figure from the game pass exploits?
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