Not about the cost of hardware since consoles are normally cheap. It’s about all the subscription based crap they are going to force into us like seasonal passes and exclusive accesses and so on.
Consoles are cheap, bit they still sell them at a loss. This let's them amortize the cost of the console across several users and get way better utilization.
This is the kind of nonsense the so called AAA companies are trying to force on their customers: https://mobile.twitter.com/anthemgame/status/104320071518584...