I'll speak as a consumer first, and I'll bash it as a fanboy in later posts. I'll talk about the highest tier first, because that's the most interesting one.
There's some good news, in that its offering many of the same features as gpu, which includes access to many games from older libraries and some of these previous gen games are even downloadable. They are also following the gamepass model for 3rd party games. Many newer games will probably release on their service after a period of time.
The biggest drawbacks are 2 things. The first is that the price is $3 more per month than gpu. The second is that no day and date for new games on the service. Sony will likely play a balancing game, wait as long as they can to maximize sales before announcing a release on their service, or maybe some games won't be released on their service at all.
I'd like to point out that MS is probably a bigger first party publisher with more studios than sony is and the games that will release on gpu are on a really high level.
There is one piece of bad news for gpu subscribers. Sonys model is more expensive and offers less. This is pretty much a signal to MS to raise the price at some point.
GamePass Ultimate is $14.99 a month, so $180 a year. But that does include PC as well.
I've had GamePass since last August (because I could get it for $1) and it is definitely not tons of high quality games. It's mostly games that couldn't sell well for $60, like Halo Infinite and Back 4 Blood. If people had bought those for full price a lot of people would have felt ripped off and the overall player count would be much much lower than it was thanks to GP.
Notice how all the mediocre Gears of War and Halo titles are on GP but they don't have all the Forza titles which are arguably mostly great- because they still think they can get people to outright buy those at the end of the day.
Tunic is probably my favorite day one GP game but its only a small indie title.
What do you mean "they don't have all the Forza titles"? You mean they don't have Forza titles that were delisted for licensing reasons? Because every Forza you can still buy digitally is on Game Pass. Admittedly that's only Forza Horizon 4 and 5 right now. Blame Microsoft for signing crappy 3-year licensing deals with the carmakers. Every game in the history of the franchise only remained on sale for 3 years.
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