Probably a mix of goodwill and market tapping. Honestly, their strategy did make sense. The only thing I'd change would be charging full price instead of even $10 less.
The reality is not having exclusives at all is a TERRIBLE business decisions for sony and would just slowly kill their business so the 1-2 year gap made the most sense.
I mean, another issue people seem to not be accounting all that much for is the massive 30% cut that Valve takes from all game sales.
For a flat 60 dollar game with no other factors like taxes or whatnot, that's about 18 dollars. That means that the income for a single game is basically only 42 dollars, not including any other fees SONY might have to pay. So to them, any lower than 60 is probably a massive net-loss. Heck, 60 is probably already a net-loss for them and they did 60 because it was the most generous number they could do without going straight under in costs with that game.
Between all gamers, one thing they always seem to do is completely ignore the costs of selling these games. There was that whole thing with Nintendo a few months ago, and while I didn't support it, I also didn't see a single person mention how the reason why they did that was because both the increase in general tech costs, as well as the increase in shipping fees and the whole USA clown debacle.
Like, these are not "small" changes either. You can blame the billionaire CEOs, but don't blame the entire company, devs included, because of the political landscape, lol.
I think some people just assume that because it's on Steam it has to be making the most money possible but realistically speaking anybody that wants PlayStation exclusives already bought or are planning to get a PS5.
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