Sony Teases A PlayStation Response To Xbox Game Pass

Why can't anyone remember that GP was a response to not having enough games and not keeping up with Sony, so they moved the goal post with their Xbox plans, again!? Sony doesn't need to be or beat GP. Their way of doing things constantly makes MS rethink and change their course.

Well they have to, or they'll eventually be in damage control sony.

They shouldn't fk around when relying on exclusives only, if people want a service, and you don't deliver people will respond, not straight away but eventually.

Sony may have to become like nintendo and just break from mold in the future (it's speculation, but a predictable one) IF that's a big IF, if microsoft can get the numbers (as it looks like they can) and experiment with new console designs, new ways exploring, it will be the YouTube hub of gaming; and we all know how big YouTube is.

However Microsoft hasn't always been faithful to it's customers, they are nortorious for killing of software, delisting services while in the business of making money and generating data.

If it wasn't for Phil Spencer, Xbox would have been dead, but it's hard to fathom with direct X and windows being essential in Microsoft's ethos, so they wouldn't let Xbox die(as I could imagine Phil pitching for the job of reformatting the Xbox division to Satya nadella, who bill gates appointed as CEO of microsoft) and gamepass is the ultimatum of do or die, that would have been what he said.

Phill: " if we don't make a serious change we may lose a huge revenue stream, now here me out here, if we look at our competitors we can bring in the numbers, but as of now it's do or die, we must spend money, if your serious let me take responsibility of fixing Xbox, I've been loyal working here for 30 years as a engineer, so I know I can bring Xbox back, yes it's had a poor start but with Xbox 360 you can see it's built a following, so let me and my team build a system to innovate the next generation"

At that point, Satya would have been resistant, but allowing Phill with the go ahead.

But the financial side of it:

If people pay 1$ more on game pass that's a million in development (automatically injected into real time development, another way to picture like donations, and supporting the development of the game, not like how star citizen treats it's fanbase)for a new release game, and if $60 million pay then 60 million get to play, $1 billion = 1 billion customers, all ya gotta do is raise it by 1 or 50 cents, then it's definitely sustainable, but if sony doesn't have the audience then probably not.

If microsoft got 500 million customers in china even for $1 that's $500 million a month, so absolutely sustainable, however if microsoft published a game for a studio, or even listed it at $59 and 10 million bought it that's $590 million dollars, (but then the game dies out and the franchise must keep pumping out the same title to generate income) so with game pass, as long as there's gamepass income coming in each month That's $15 a month for game pass, If 100 million americans signed up, that's 1.5billion dollers in the first month.

So its very sustainable, it's just the numbers game now.

And if each developer listed their game on game pass, they have access to telemetry, time played, who died, who left at what point, how many games loaded at set times, where the games suffering bugs, sustainable server bearing loads, and support for building a sustainable community.

The developers can focus on bringing better full priced games with less bugs, and if they decide to bring it to game pass, if 30 million played it that's 30 million dollars after even one month of listing it before it went on retail for full price, so how ever you look at it, it's a powerful tool for developers gamepass.

This articles sounds like it’s written by a sony fanboy. A pony. It says that sony has been steadily trying to compete then lists two examples lol.

It makes me cringe to see how much of the gaming media leans towards sony and at the same time is negative towards Microsoft and Xbox.

On topic sony have failed already. Ryan saying that they won’t release games day and date like Gamepass is a fail already.

The next 18 months to 3 years is going to be mighty interesting for Xbox. Once devs get used to the hardware and Xbox 1st party games start dropping. Next year should be good too mind you with Halo Infinite.

Finally a guy points out why the Gamepass model doesn't work. But PS Now even used to cost $20 per month not long ago? Even with the extremely lacking collection of mostly old games available on there? Just goes to show how much more MS would have to charge to make its service somewhat profitable, compared to all the money they're losing on game sales from it and who knows how much they're paying publishers to release their games on Gamepass. Sony is looking at it from a point of profitability, which is why they're not even trying to compete with that offer. Only MS with money to burn is willing to spend billions on some project that will most likely never really be profitable. But they have to start increasing the prices at some point because right now Gamepass is one of the most valuable services there is, at least on Xbox from what I keep hearing from all the fanboys. Value that comes out of MS' pockets.

So enjoy it while it lasts. Though who knows how long MS will keep the prices relatively low as it's one of their main ways to compete with Sony and nothing they do is really making any difference in helping them get ahead.

Am i wrong or has Jim Ryan said few weeks ago that they dont need a games subscription service at their plattform to counter Gamepass?

Jim,Jim,Jim

combining plus and ps now for one low price is the only thing they can do.....

I guess when things finally slow down we'll see who leads the system sales, but I don't believe that Game Pass is going to be a deciding factor for many people at all, contrary to this article. You could give away as many games as you like, but are they the best games? Anyway, I could be wrong of course, but time will tell.

I think there's a lot of things that Sony can do to make PS NOW more interesting without being Gamepass 2.0

1) Properly market that you don't need a Playstation to play PS Now and make it that you can stream everywhere (phone, Tablets, PC, Fridge, and fax machines).

2) Sony can put some smaller game or more niche day 1 on the service. For example, Concrete Genie, Dreams, Journey, etc. This would help create interest in the IP and stimulate future purchases.

3) Have some deals with some indies creator to release the game before on PS NOW when it's early access.

4) Since Sony Studios are known for their passion they could add Videos like behind the scene to PS NOW. For example, they could add a video about the inspiration for Ghost of Tsushima or 30 min animation showing the life of Abby and the crew from Tlou2 before the event of the game. Microsoft is using Windows as a strength for Gamepass well Sony could use his movie knowledge to strengthen PS Now.

Will not be adding new video game releases to the service like Microsoft does because video games cost millions and millions of dollars, hmmm.

To just come out admit it is not a very good move...

Looks like PlayStation is lucky that it has the fan base it does because Sony will not offer what Microsoft will.

Meh. In all likelihood it's just a minor price drop, some sort of bonus connected to PSN, or just a few new games. Probably some of the PS4 exclusives.

Not interested in Cloud game the latency involved in that is enough reason for me to not be interested.

Never mind fact you dont own any thing that way

It was only 2 months ago this same guy said PS5 would not be getting a Gamepass competitor, there's an article on this very site titled as much. He even said it twice in the last 6 months. Sony flip-flopping almost as much as Microsoft did last gen on a lot of their messaging leading into this generation.

Not sure I see the point much if its not having day one exclusives. Assuming third party titles remain roughly similar between both platforms it doesn't really change the current status quo of having gamepass for both Xbox/PC exclusives as well as third party titles and just buying PS5 exclusives at launch. The only real substantial impact here would be for the people that don't mind waiting until the exclusives are added to the platform or people only getting one console or don't own a gaming PC.

at this point the only thing they should be "tease-ing" is ramp up your damn production!

Beep Boop Bop... Game pass does not compute... Must buy more consoles.