Sony Teases A PlayStation Response To Xbox Game Pass

Good luck

That would nice but its going to take a huge investment to make it as good as Game Pass and more specifically, launch day games that come to Game Pass from so many studios. Microsoft has just made a huge acquisition deal and they say they have plans for more in the future. Plus EA Access, xCloud, Play Anywhere, Games with Gold etc. also come with Game Pass. I'd assume a similar deal could be made with PlayStation but, nobody knows for sure. Sony is going to have to spend a lot of money to truly compete. But who knows, maybe they'll have a deal with Squenix and other IP holders to have their games exclusively on Sony's sub. Not sure how they're going to compete with xCloud and Play Anywhere though. Are they going to rent even more servers from Microsoft? That could drive up costs. This is why we need competition, folks. People constantly wish for the death of Xbox. Imagine a world where Sony had zero competition other than Nintendo. Stuff like this would never see the light of day without strong competition.

In all honesty Xbox games probably cost a lot less to develop than many of the big PlayStation exclusives, yes game pass has lots of games to choose from but most of them are very missable

I love competition, it benefits gamers 👍

Sony can’t afford it and Jim Ryan is a hapless habitual pathetic liar.

Oh, and before I get libeled as a Xbox fanboy, Microsoft is pure evil, it and the other techs have done incalculable damage to society, and it and the other techs should be broken up and federally regulated.

release the games on day 1 for FREE and eat the cost....thats what i want

Good, hopefully Sony ends up feeling they need to put their games on it day 1 as well. If it was up to Sony we would be rebuying any ps4 game at full price this gen. Hackers have exposed that they were making customers pay per game to use a ps2 emulator...

Reading comments below I note that people still think PS now is only a streaming service (as did I before checking it out in a free trial a couple of weeks ago).

That is only half true. Many games you can download and play locally!

First thing Sony should fix is this part of their messaging!

I'm not a fan of subscription-based services, but to put the Playstation Now on equal footing with Xbox's Game Pass is kinda ludicrous. It's a streaming service, which makes it inferior already. It also contains PS3 games that should have been backwards compatible. The PS4 library here could've been easily implemented in the PS+ Collection to boost that anemic service. It doesn't help that PS5's lack of features that the Xsex provides are making these flaws more apparent.

Get Jim Ryan out of there ASAP.

Not interested in either service, but it's good for gamers to have options.

PSNow is garbage mainly because of the cloud component involved. If it the games were running on the local system the PSNow would be fantastic.

Really hope this push for cloud gaming dies soon. Stadia should have been a clear warning that it doesn't work.

They already have Playstation Now. It's a perfectly legitimate competitor to Game Pass. I have both GP and PS Now, GP is superior, yes, but it's not world apart. PS Now is a great value and a fantastic service.

It's vexing when gaming journalists forget PS Now exists. It's outright bizarre than Sony seems to forget about it.

"We may Playstation Now," they note. Yes, they do. Continue to support the service and update the library, and maybe work to improve its visibility. Clarify to gamers what the service is now is a huge improvement from where it started. That's all that is needed to stay competitive with Game Pass and keep Playstation relevant.

Sony charges $70 each at the launch of it's first party games on the PS5. That is just for one game.

Gamepass will allow you to play all of Xbox's first party games as well as some third party games on release for just $10 a month. This gives even more value now that Xbox has 23 studios developing games(compared to only 15 for Playstation).

It also would be nice if Sony improves on it's PSNow service by improving streaming up to at least 1080p resolution as opposed to only 720p right now and keep their premium first party games on the service permanently like Gamepass does rather than just for a few months.

A potential competitor to the Gamepass, huh?

Let the... wait for it... GAMES begin!

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