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Consoles have forced third party game makers to pay a license fee for every physical game sold since the 80s no matter where you sold the game.


My example was about subscriptions, no console maker takes a cut of a subscription to a game done through the game publisher's own servers/service. No console maker takes a cut from sales of digital items done through the game's platform.

You are moving the goalposts, licencing is a well established practice and only interferes with the sale of the initial product: the game, not subsequent upsales where the console maker has absolutely no interaction with, just like royalties for IP and so on, it's another broken analogy...


Which console makers allow you to have subscriptions that you pay for outside of the game?


Final Fantasy XIV for example.




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