Yea, do not buy Sony's first party games unless you are ready to play. Both Sony and MS are very aggressive with first party game pricing (unlike Nintendo) that they often drop their games to $10 during sales within a year. I don't have time to play too many games so I only pick first party...
They aren't really shooting themselves on the foot because every game series has its fan base that want to get it right away or soon after release. For fighting games, you can not find a game that doesn't use this form of business model anymore, meaning it's a successful model even though we...