Xbox’s Phil Spencer shares comments on reports of upcoming Sony service.
The head of gaming at Microsoft fully expects PlayStation to compete with Xbox Game Pass through future unannounced subscription service.
It’s fairly well contested that Xbox Game Pass is far superior to PlayStation’s current game streaming service, PlayStation Now. Though there have been some recent efforts to improve the service, nothing that would compare to the slew of AAA titles available to play on Xbox Game Pass.
According to documents seen by Bloomberg, Sony has a completely new service in the works – codenamed Spartacus. Supposedly, this will include the current PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now services in a complete rebrand, and will be available in three subscription tiers.
It is currently set to launch for PS4 and PS5 this spring.
The service will include existing benefits like online play and free monthly titles, as well as a catalogue of games that players with the subscription can access in the second tier. The third tier will also offer extended demos, game streaming, and a selection of classics PlayStation games.
When IGN asked Phil Spencer about the claims, he stated that he felt it was an inevitability.
“I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out, but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things,” he said. “I talk about it as an inevitability. So for us, we should continue to innovate, continue to compete, because the things that we’re doing might be advantages that we have in the market today, but they’re just based on us going first, not that we’ve created something that no one else can go create.
“I like it because it feeds our energy on what are the next things that we should be working on as we continue to build out the things that we’ve done in the past. Because I think the right answer is to ship great games, ship them on PC, ship them on console, ship them on cloud, make them available Day 1 in the subscription. And I expect that’s what our competitor will do.”
It seems Xbox are also more than willing to keep up with the competition. Having a lot of experience delivering a great subscription service, I’d say they have an advantage for the moment. Will PlayStation be able to catch up?
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