Sony Exec Describes Game Pass And PS Plus As 'Very Different' Offerings

Bs response. What a d-bag. Phil Spencer is the phoniest of phonies, but Sony it’s like every evil thing people think about corporations is just who they are.

Both are great service. Playstation can’t possibly offer day 1 exclusives, it cost them 10 times more than cost Xbox!! Playstation exclusive sell anywhere between 10 and 30 million copies!! Xbox exclusive never sold close to this! If day 1 exclusive did come PS+ i’d worry that quality of games may drop. Less cash coming in mean less cash invested in new games.

@Adol-Bannings "Sony/Microsoft it’s like every evil thing people think about corporations is just who they are."

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as one who what those two subscriptions i can say its the same thing even when a game leaving one of those sub you know its gonna showup on the other.

the only different here is XBOX doing day one and Sony doing After Year One

@Realist very true, but the point I’m making is Phil likes everyone’s game and system and everything and everyone in the world, that’s his persona, but who ever runs PlayStation, is just always the living embodiment of the stereotype of a ruthless tycoon corporate douche, as was the Xbox guy who launched Xbox one.

Another big difference is Cloud saves are Free on Xbox.
Sony force people to buy a subscription for cloud saves on the PS5.

Both are worth the asking price currently. Both offer up a great variety of games.

GamePass is so far ahead of PS+. Far more games I play on GamePass than on PS+.

With the new price for PS+ the value just isn’t there for me anymore. I’m annoyed that to play online I’ll have to have at least the $70 tier.

Different business models and ecosystem at the moment. Sony relies on Sales and is a very Sales driven business model. Their Games drive both Hardware and Software sales so it doesn't make sense to offer games Day 1 on a Sub service - especially if that impacts on Software and/or Hardware Sales.

MS are more Service driven and can get you in to their ecosystem with their Sub service on virtually any Platform. You don't need to buy a Series Console at all, don't need to buy the Game either - therefore its detrimental to 'Sales' - certainly not 'maximising' the sales potential of Hardware and Software.

With that being said, I think BOTH are great value to their respective audiences and both offer a range of Great games to play at no extra cost. The 'age' of games in the service doesn't stop them being 'great' and not all 'Day 1' experiences are when the game is at its best or most complete.

Personally I don't sub to higher tiers of PS+, mostly because I have played the 'majority' of games I'd want and Game Pass Ultimate offers more 'versatility' as I also have a Gaming Laptop and RoG Ally too. It doesn't make sense to have 'both' as I am never short of something to play.

I actually play more games on psn, but that may change as GP get some more heavy hitters I enjoy. Thought Id play Starfield and Motorsport for years, but Im actually done with them. Thank goodness for like a dragon this month...

The difference is simple ,xbox needs gamepass to survive ,Sony doesn't need ps plus to,gamepass is ms response to sonys success.

The purpose of the two subscriptions are the same. Provide gamers with online features and a catalogue of games they can play.

The features and and catalogues take very different approaches though. In the end I think your preference is based on what you value most. I have no problem with either subscription, but with the way I use them XB is giving me better value for dollars spent in my opinion.

I cancelled my PS+ subscription entirely because, in my opinion, it's garbage.

he did describe PS Plus as being "very different" from Game Pass

I totally agree with his assertion, and it's the reason why I don't plan to subscribe to their services until it becomes more like GamePass 😀.

Gamepass is the best deal in gaming right now wipes the floor with ps plus but ps plus is ok though I've got both so the best of both worlds I still don't like either company's though to be honest

Even with Microsoft's issues, Game Pass is just such a better service.

Sony really jumped the shark with its pricing.

I like to own games and collect physical games. I didn't think game pass would be for me but I have had the subscription pretty much constantly for 3 years now. I typically wait for the $20 price drops to maximize my gaming budget and GP let's me play a few hit games at launch, try many many games i wouldnt blindly purchase, cloud gaming, bring huge libraries across my devices like series X/S, PC and ROG Ally, etc.

Side note, Lamplighters League is great. Most technical issues that people were reporting must have either been fixed or are not present on PC gamepass version. Literally the only issue im having is weird camera angles during some action animations.

@themightyant Agreed, they're both excellent value for what they are. I've got ultimate and plus extra and there is so much to play you could probably play something new every day for 3 or 4 months.

The subscription numbers tell it all. GP is going gangbusters compared to PSP. And considering MS is #3 in market share, you'd expect PSP to easily have surpassed or at least be even with GP in subscriptions. They aren't even close.

Sony is still primarily focused on trying to squeeze as much money out of exclusives as they can. They spend a sh*t ton for exclusives, which would take longer to recoup on PSP. Having both consoles, I still end up on Xbox more often.

MS appears to be making many of their newly acquired solo player games exclusives and keeping many of the multi players cross platform. While I hate exclusives, it certainly edges GP that much further ahead.