Keep things in perspective, will you? Those monthly subscription services you're talking about are about business appliances, and only work if your company is large enough to sustain the continuous level of support that is needed. I'm skeptical as to whether it actually INCREASES the market share (adobe and microsoft weren't exactly small before going this route), and the increase in revenue is actually harder to predict (it depends on how long everyone keeps leasing these products).
The subscription model for games (PS+) works very different and relies on both a steady stream of smaller appliances and/or features otherwise hidden behind a paywall. If YOU haven't realised this, perhaps you should do that "look around"-thingy you use to fend off giving a proper response.
As to mobile gaming: when the 3DS was about to be launched, I remember Iwata saying that apple was their biggest competitor in that field (not sony). I thought he was nuts at that time, but it wasn't far from the truth. Nintendo obviously knows that's what people WANT, but that doesn't mean they can use that in a way they make a profit (people like nintendo products because they're quality. Quality costs money. The apple and google apps cost barely anything in that regard).
If you want to represent the cold hard truth, be my guest and represent it. If you went the same the same approach as in this post, I'd say they hated you for it because your arguments flat out suck. Everyone can claim anything and say "if you don't believe me, just look around" without using any source that actually indicates anything worth a damn.
First of all, rude.
Second of all, you may not like it and you have your freedom to do so. However don't blame me for you denial. I said this would happen quite some time ago and it did, in fact, happen. I don't think an argument can be sucky when it became true after all.
You can try to fend me off any way you want, that fact will not change. What I do NOT understand, is how most people consider this to be a bad thing. Are people really that affraid of change? Dear god.
What the hell does it matter if you play Zelda on a Nintendo 3DS or on a phone? It's still Zelda.
To wrap this up, and regardless of why companies are switching to monhtly paid subscription services, fact of the matter, is that they are doing it. If you want cold hard paper sheets showing how much money they made before this new model, and nowadays, then dig them up yourself. I don't need confirmation on this, is just freaking common sense.
EDIT: Also I forgot to explain my point of view. It is really not that hard to realize the difference in how monthly subscriptions are generally, beneficial.
For instance in Adobe's case, you can either pay 1000$ for Photoshop, which many people will not dish out because they dont want to or because they cannot afford it, OR, you can pay less than 20$ a month for the same service.
In other words, I do not believe this newer model did not increase their sales exponentially. In fact, they wouldn't have changed the way they worked, if it didn't.
