Sony's Xbox Game Pass Competitor Could Be Ready To Launch Soon

Ryan told once that Game Pass never would give a profit so it was not interesting. And now he did the maths?

I mean unless the offer first party titles on release it’s not a gamepass like service at all, it’s just a slight variation on PS Plus/Now. If you’re going to try and compete, need to at least offer the same thing lol

I'll wait for an official release of the info before I pass judgement. Either way, it won't be like GamePass.

I was listening to David Jaffe and he gave an idea that made me think that, how games are made do not have to change because they must cater to a service.

I don't like services, but if I had to choose between gamepass and David Jaffe's idea, I think David Jaffe's approach is profitable.

The idea: If you own tier 2 or 3, you'll get BC ps1,ps2,ps3 games in some manner and you'll get a time period to demo full games. The selection would be bigger than gamepass, but you can't play more than a few hours of any game and the time is based on game by game case. Now this helps expose more games to people, sony and third party publishers might lose sales, but they may recoup by new customers trying the game and buying the game and anyone who was interested in it, will buy it anyways, not changing the gaming landscape. Also the subs income would help.

It doesn't benefit the consumer as much as GP, but it benefits the scope of games budgets so we can still get huge production games. Also, it will push devs to make those first hours very appealing so it promotes devs/publishers wanting to make a good attractive game. If the game is broken, has little content, it will fail. If it's so good that you need to keep playing, you buy it, maybe Sony could sell their games at $60 if you're subbed too.

@Rural-Bandit
I will be sticking with the standard service I have now. No point for me with me new releases only appetite I have, unless they follow game pass with in house studio day one releases.

What exactly does this have to do with XBOX?

@Quaali That sony might fight for day 1 service deals with xbox? Decreasing the value of gp?

Look at Shadow Warrior 3.

Maybe.

I don't want 7 services for movies/series along with 7 more for games though.
Still can't believe we pay for online and we know who's bright idea was it. Not to mention the double price attempt.

So they will they be offering part of the service without the need for a console?

Sounds like it's still PS5-only so I'm good but happy for anyone who has one.

I just want Back Compatibility please. Dont care about a gamepass like service

If these rumours are true it’s laughably bad 😂

The only thing I’m worrying about is a price hike for +.

Yeah, I’m hoping these rumours aren’t accurate. It seems the two biggest requests are day one drops and legacy title access. The latter matters most to me, as there are so many classic games I want to play again.

I also don’t want Sony to do their own Gamepass which Bloomberg seems to think they’re doing. I want Microsoft to keep trucking with Gamepass and for Sony to do something unique, not a copy of GP. Nate The Hate (who may be mistaken here) believes that Spartacus will be focused on classic titles, calling it “NSO Expansion, but good.” I can get excited for that and would be willing to pay for the associated tier. Rumours are rumours though, so I’ll keep my expectations cool and just enjoy Gamepass as the service for me currently.

My only skin in the game is competitive for Xbox so hopefully they make a service that's beneficial to PlayStation owner's. Game trials seem like a great perk when the games are so expensive but having to pay for it isn't as attractive to me....but again I'm not a customer.

@Fenbops hopefully not.

This literally sounds like they are combining Now and Plus, giving it a coat of paint, and sending it to die. I really hope it’s better than this….

I've passed on Sony this generation. I don't need all three consoles. Very rarely do I touch my switch anymore since I got my X. I play my X nearly every day. If competition makes Xbox even better then I'm happy. Hopefully Sony fans like this if it's true.

The only thing Sony can offer with this over what Xbox has is legacy games. PS2 especially has such a good library; but i can see them coming up against the same licensing issues that Microsoft hit with its BC. Will be interesting to see what they can offer; otherwise not interested in a second service.

"Probably... Probably... Not necessarily...".

Jeff, your fortune-teller.

Call now.

Seriously, he's just repeating what Bloomberg said in December.

They can call the service PlayStation Try Now Paying.

I guess we will wait and see in this. So far it does not sound like anything I would want over + at the moment. But we may know soon it sounds like.

Sony PS's answer to xb gamepass will not be a competitor at all, period. They've already announced that they will not add day one release exclusives on the service, which is a huge negative, cause Sony adds day 1 exclusives like Forza 5 and Halo and STalker 2 coming in December to the game pass service. So as long as Sony refuses to get rid of their greed, XB gamepass will still be Supreme, period!!!!!

@mousieone You're right. Sony isn't prepared to add day one release exclusive to this service like XB is doing with gamepass and that's a huge negative. They want to continue the greed ffs.

its basically psnow merged with PS+

My PS+ expires in April and I'm waiting for more details on this before renewing.

Based on this info, $16 a month is WAY too expensive for me for only an EA Play style service when Game Pass Ultimate is $15 for day one games on console, PC and Cloud.

Let's hope Sony have kept the cheaper annual prices to save a little bit faith, otherwise this is a huge L on their behalf.

I don’t know. I do not have a PlayStation, but if they made this service usable for non console owners and made the back catalog available, I would definitely be interested. There are a lot of old PlayStation classics that I either loved, or never got to play.

I said it over on Push, but never underestimate the mass market. Nintendo is selling 30-40 year old games and a few DLCs for a monthly sub and people are eating it up. The same masses will subscribe to whatever poor offering Sony has in droves simply because it's a new sub to sign up for so it must be cool. Even if it's this bad it'll be massively profitable.

@RevGaming sory but sonys approach is ridiculous to the consumer... why in the hell would you wanna pay extra for old ps games and trials? yall remember trials use to be free and common place....also for the same amount you can get cloud gaming and actual full games that are current and some on day one like MLB the show... so while your paying a dollar more a month for old games streaming and trials... ill be paying a dollarr less(or more likely hundred less as i use the gold to ultimate conversion) ill get old games, streaming, pc games, xbox games, and full games on day 1.... you tell me which service sounds better.....rermeber sony 16$ for older playstation games, cloud, and trials.... or 15$ for older xbox games, cloud, pc, eapass, and all MS games day 1 with other non ms games day 1 like MLB the show... someone please tell me how sonys is better option? and perrsonaly i dont give a ***** about if the companies make money and i dont understand why anyone would care its not like you make money from them...any talk of the company not making money is just fanboys trying to come up with a reason a service is bad when they cant actually find one....this is the only industry where defending corporations making money or not happens as a reason a service is bad....nobody does this with netflix as a argument that hulu is better or vice versa... why we dont give a *****.....and the same should be said bout gaming companies... look at the services based on what the consumer gets not what the companies get...

@Blessed_Koz I'm not paying for any services. Except for online which we have xbox to thank for that.

Yeah. Gamepass sounds better but it will be harder to justify bigger production games in the future which is why I buy new consoles.

I don't care about Sony's money, but I care that I get next gen looking games like Horizon and Elden Ring (not graphically but in scope), so I need to care a little bit, don't you think?

You want a comparison in movies/series?
Tell me a series that has a high production as big as LOTR, Harry Potter, MARVEL etc.
You get the ocassional Stranger Things and Witcher, but everything else on Netflix is fodder.

And I am looking at what the consumer is getting. Gaming is a selfish hobby. So, idc about people getting games for $15. I want my games to be bigger, not smaller.

Plus, gaming didn't need games services. We were doing fine paying $60-70 and waiting for sales.