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PlayStation's Focus Has Shifted From Game Sales to Actual Play Time, Sony Says (www.playstationlifestyle.net)
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[-] grue@lemmy.world 84 points 4 months ago

Translation: ad impressions, microtransactions, and Skinner box tactics.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Oh.

Well here was me clicking on this thread thinking "oh! That seems like a positive shift in mentality"

Then I read your comment.

Was a fun 3 seconds

[-] bund@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

wish i could super upvote

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

You can always press the button twice

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Twice does nothing, but thrice works.

[-] Opafi@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

Liked your comment so much I just did it there.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And forcing the PlayStation Plus subscription.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago

So basically they have had really bad sales lately and this is how they justify it to their shareholders.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 43 points 4 months ago

Or the movement to microtransactions means prolonged time playing will lead to more income, whereas number of sales is completed.

[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

"play time"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_revenue_per_user

[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I love that this is pronounced Arr Poo (ARPU)

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Everyone's fighting over our poo

[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

And today I love a stranger. Wonderful!

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