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I think that was a failure on their marketing: you didn't actually need to pay for the subscription for the games.

• Gigachad 4y ago
  Which made me trust it even less. How is it a sustainable business model for them to run the hardware and platform for the next 10 years without recurring revenue.
  • Dalewyn 4y ago
    For large corporations and companies, it is entirely reasonable to have a couple businesses run red ink which are propped up by other businesses running surplus black ink. For a non-Google example: Costco and their roasted whole chickens they sell for $5 USD each. There is no fucking way Costco makes a profit, let alone break even, on those, but they do it and run the red ink anyway because the customers that come to buy them will also grab other stuff on the way out, generating black ink to offset and surpass the red ink.
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  • utopcell 4y ago
    It was akin to the freemium model: You could play your games at 1080p and subscribe to play them at higher 4k quality.
  • solardev 4y ago
    To be fair, 10 years in human time is like 1.5 years in Google time.