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Re:PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It W... by cheeseomlit on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:43PM (#41712483)
True but those costs should be more than covered by the cut they get from psn/xbox store purchases. Steam manages to provide those services without charging their users for it. Come to think of it i bet the bandwidth needed to download games from the psn store (typically 30-100+gb a piece) is probably more costly than any of the multiplayer services they lock behind a subscription
Re:PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It W... by vel0city on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @02:47PM (#41712550)
Steam's matchmaking services are far more limited than Xbox's.

Also, very few Steam games are sold outside of Steam. How many Xbox games are sold by other vendors like Walmart/Target/Bestbuy/Amazon/GameStop?