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So, let me get this straight. The complaint is that Sony’s cut is too high? Fascinating.

Sony isn’t forcing you to buy anything. They aren’t stealing anyone’s money. They have products and services that parties participate in and engage with willingly.

Complaining that Louis Vuitton sells their transformed leather for 320x the purchase cost is ridiculous. You could simply vote with your dollars and not buy the product to begin with. LV’s suppliers could simply ask for more money and use their leverage to do so.

Sony will charge as much as the market will bear, but no more, lest they lose sales and/or partners. An equilibrium will be created. If the 30% commission was truly out of whack, the devs and customers would simply stop transacting on Sony’s platform.

Is 30% expensive? Yep. No argument there. But Sony is offering access to tens of millions of wallets with a strong e-commerce store-front. Building that ecosystem sure as shit isn’t cheap, it took Sony decades, patents, enormous investments and millions of hours of labor to get there. They’re allowed to charge 99% if they wanted to. The obvious downside is killing the incentive for devs to keep the supply side going.

Look, if you created a theme park and some restaurant wanted to sell to your customers, you’d want a piece of the revenues. The percentage negotiated would be exactly that: a NEGOTIATED agreement. Neither party is forced to conduct business with the other, they simply align incentives and hammer out a deal.

30% is expensive but reasonable when you consider just what it takes to build that kind of brand, tooling, access and systems. Christ people, technology is expensive as fuck to build and maintain.

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