Either people forgot about PlayStation Plus, or I still don't understand what exactly Xbox Game Pass is.

This article is spot on.

I believe this should be re-titled “why Sony shouldn’t copy Microsoft’s gamepass.” Or at least the every new Microsoft developed game released shows up on game pass. Because as it’s been stated Sony has its own game pass... PSNow.

Sony won't because they make too many games while ms has like few studios with even fewer IP's

I find it funny that all you of Xbox fans who think ms is doing all this because they care when less than a decade ago

They released a broken console
They tried to spy on people
They tried DRM
They tried blocking used games
They charged for for xblive
Without offering any games
They were against cross platform play

All of the sudden more than 40 million behind and they became the good guys of gaming

Xbox brand will always finish a distant 3rd to a Playstation or Nintendo Brad console because ms after 18 years of being in this business still don't understand gaming consoles require games

If you console don't have great exclusives than why should people buy them when they can get the same 3rd party games on another platform and get exclusives

This baseless defense of MS has to stop if we don't demand more than nothing will change

The main reason you won't see Sony do this for their brand new game releases is due to the actual type of games tyey make.

Xbox exclusive games are predominantly or entirely online focused. Online focused games attempt to draw out their relevance ala updates, expansions, etc. Or at least they try to. Monthly subscription models work for that kind of game because you will need to play the game for months to continue to make progress. Yet a game that has such a small barrier of entry has to sell exponentially more to be profitable.The game has to also be pulling in a sizable amount of microtransactions. It is a long game.

PlayStation games are usually single player first. They can last you a month for single playthrough but they do have a definitive end. You could pay for one month, speed run the game, then cancel. That would be very unsustainable. Sony's plan of action is well suited the way it is. They have SP Titles inbetween all the big AAA 3rd party stuff that r usually more online focused. Focused comarketing of these types of games is way cheaper than making their own.

Ultimately, Sony's games are proving to be far more profitable. They have only marginally high budgets but is mostly spent on the games development. Microsoft spends a metric ton on advertising a game more than its development. Sony is also willing to let their games spend as much time in the oven to make them good.

Game development is a risky venture anyway you slice it tho.

Exactly.

MS can get away with it because they mainly make MP. Sony cant since they only make SP focused games.

Game pass is great when your library is mediocre and good releases are few and far between. You will play games you wouldn't necessarily but others wise, and you get a bunch of old stuff to pad it out so it's good value.

Sony's approach is different. They make games so compelling, so high quality, that no true gamer could look at them and not want to play them. Then they sell them to recoup the tremendous financial outlay they've made, not just on the game itself, but the studio and infrastructure they've made a long term investment in.

And I'm fine with that. You not only get better games, more often, but they're investing in the industry's future, not just here to strip mine it. I have no problem with devs doing a great job and then getting paid for the fruit of their labor. Happy to buy good games.

Damn Straight Xbox Games Pass isn’t worth it in the long run, games aren’t movies or tv shows and Sony and Nintendo know that fairly well.

Sure Sony may not be able to take the risks, but at least when it comes to Sony's first party titles they're getting off their arse, and showing results. Microsuck has done diddily squat outside of Halo, Gears, Forza, Sea of DogSh!t, and the vaporware title Crackdown 3. Fable is dead, and besides you'll never get another actually good game from Rare as their talent left the company years ago, and now their company is a dead corpse for shoddy kinect titles, and their not so ambitious Sea of Dogsh!t.

Even Nintendo has been showing results of their first party titles as last year they had more than 3 titles released from their in house studios.

My take on the situation:

Game Pass doesn’t allow for great games like God of War. The rate at which Sony has delivered AAA games has been amazing this generation. If they were dealing with a subscription service like Game Pass, I can’t see this continuing. It seems to me that games would make less money with a service like that since people wouldn’t buy them hoping they’d get on the service down the road. Not a good scenario for gaming IMO

To different approaches and I like the way Sony does business! Also I don't mind paying $60 bucks for a new title like GOW. I'll do the same with Detroit, Yakuza 6, Spider-Man, Dreams, Darksiders 3, TLOU2, Red Dead 2, Metro Exodus, Days Gone and Death Stranding etc! I won't pay $10. a month for old games or sub par new titles.

If Sony had GamePass I wouldn't be playing GOW now because it wouldn't exist in its current form!

GOW4 is why Sony doesn't have to copy MS's gamepass.

But who in right mind would copy microsoft ? The competition is selling millions and millions of consoles and software. Much more then microsoft. Why would they change their path?

Honestly this games as a service thing need to eat dirt.

I have no issue at all with paying for a game like God of War, its worth every penny. Sony doesn't need to use a service to entice people into playing games that score below a 70 meta anyway.

With gamepass for 9,99 MS has a steady cashflow per month, so they can very well finance games like SoT with that. Apart from that, gamepass has 100 games and only a small number of exclusives in comparison.With 1 million subscribers, MS earns nearly 10 mllion a month.Thats not bad to keep things rolling. Sony will follow.

All I hear of this is BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH... I am fine with what Sony has to offer. Sony has the superior games and that's all I need. Why do things always have to be deals, deals, deals... we don't bargin at the supermarket for our food. Geesh!

And it should stay like that to be honest. Also, I actually want to own my games.

That's because PlayStation doesn't wanna be Xflix One.

No company, especially a publically traded one, is willing to loose money on an investment. This idea that because Microsoft is big cash rich company that they will happily bleed money in their xbox division just so they can win the console wars is ridiculous.

No brainer really. Sony have avoided ms' crappy ideas like the plague this gen and who can blame them.

Stop trying to justify Microsoft’s lack of everything to Sony’s huge success. Bottom line they have nothing that compares to GOW. A friend of mine bought a PS4 pro just for GOW. And he’s an Xbox lover. It proves games sell systems not just the tech.

One and done games dont really make sense for gamepass, they want you to stay subbed and not leave

Summary. Xbox exclusives are tosh, so they can give them away. Sony ones are good so they don't.

GOW will most likely bring in more profit this year than Xbox Game Pass.

Lol, no i dpnt want gami g pass.... All i want is nrw games, new gamepmay etc, and sony is doing just that....gaming pass etc i have my pc foe that.... Is it tuff to understand a console needs games more then any thing else?

They already have one. Its called PS Now. They just stream the games instead of letting you download them. We just won't see brand new releases on it.

I Agree and also the game pass is not that big of a deal as people make it out to be, i much prefer sony traditional approach to gaming

I stopped reading, as the writer lost all credibility when in the first line they refer to Sony as a developer.

Personally I don't trust these services to have what I want when I want it. It's why I buy copies of my favorite movies instead of relying on Netflix which has failed to have what I wanted to see so many times.

Lol ppl are so blind to things. Its obvious Microsoft are dumbing down their first party games and putting AA budget scopes into their first parties (as oppossed to AAA budgeted games) and hoping game pass makes up for it in revenue. Sony is continuing their exclusive dominance and pumping out great AAA budgeted games which wont be on a game pass service because too much money is invested. Id rather have a dope variety of AAA budgeted games which push my console than game pass and AA subpar games in the guise of first party populating my games list (ala Sea of Thieves, State of decay and Crackdown took a big downgrade).

Its obvious what Microsoft is doing and although gamepass may be good for some, ppl wanting tht big budget spectacular first party game in game pass youll be waiting long and thy will be far and few on Xbox.

it would actually still probably be quite profitable for Sony to offer a similar service.

Xbox can afford to give away its exclusives as part of a subscription because there aren't many of them and the ones they have are multiplayer focused with the games as a service model implemented. Hell, State of Decay 2 is only a $30 game.

They can copy game pass but the'll shouldn't give their blockbusters exclusive at launch maybe after 6-12 mounts since initial release

It's not called God of War 4. It's just God of War.

Had to

Microsoft as a software company must have certain goals in mind when cunducting business. The least input for the most output = and I give you Game Pass.

I'm willing to pay full price for quality games.It's very weird to say the least that Microsoft introduced this service with lackluster content.

What a stupid article. The only thing dumber are the comments that support such stupidity. If Sony want to do a PS Game Pass, it easily can do it without a huge financial risk. Games like God of War would just come much later to Game Pass after they have made most of their money which is generally after several months. They could wait even much longer since their would be plenty of other games that would be on the service given Sony's library of exclusives.

Couldn't they just have the service and not add brand new games?

That would be awesome if they had this service too.

I JUST got my copy of GoW from Gamefly so it would have been great to be able to rent it digitally first day on a similar service on PS4

can't or won't ;)

I see the autor admitti g xbox shores afew things better than playstation

Not why the cant, why they don't need to

The viability of these kinds of services is always going to depend on how many users are willing to pay on a regular basis, basically indefinitely to keep it funded.
The end user always thinks about them getting as many games for as little outlay as possible, but they forget that it actually diminishes the value of quality content from day one of a new game's launch.

Microsoft has seen a drastic drop in the sales of their games since last generation, Sony on the other hand has since the opposite, a huge increase in software sales, along with a huge increase in overall user-base compared to Microsoft, so it makes less sense for them to put out a service like this and give away their games for a smaller chunk of cash.

Maybe it would make sense for Sony to run a service like this for older games that have reached their sales peak and use that as a way to generate income from "dead games", but it's not something they need to do, unlike Microsoft who are barely selling a million units of major games that have been in development for ages and failed to make an impact when they released.

Only Halo really sold that much, but this gen it's also tanked, Uncharted 4 on the other hand sold a metric S''t Tonne, same is true of Horizon (an entirely new IP), God of War and many others, they're all on their way or have already sold 10M.

Sony doesn't need a game pass like Microsoft. People want to buy Sony exclusives at full price.

You don't know what you're talking about..

first this image is not god of war 4.. ignorant..
Second ... sony don't have to copy nothing from microsoft. stupid ignorant and arrogant.

go to search a real work.

Yea I hate actually owning the game instead of renting it.

so paying 10 bucks a month to finish a single player game a AAA game that is, that you might not play in a while is a bad idea? lol

As sweet as that Game Pass sounds, I bet it's a major reason Xbox doesn't have many exclusives. That might be a great deal for the consumers, but it rips off the publishers!

Ms are nothing in the gaming world and never were.

Sony and Nintendo are having great success without game pass because they actually invest in what gamers want, true exclusives games with high quality.

Game pass is like those special sales some stores do when their merchandise is not moving that well.

The game pass works when most of your titles are lackluster.. Sony could never get away with this..

Why would Sony WANT to copy ANYTHING Microsoft, WITH God of War? It should be the other way around.

“The company already has something similar in the form of PlayStation Now, but that doesn’t include new releases. Which is too bad, because a straight copy of Game Pass on PS4 would be a shockingly good deal”
Exactly. They could copy the game pass if they wanted to. It’s not like they would lose money. 5-10 million launch sales are awesome but 50 million subs paying monthly is better. I’m not saying they should do it but they could if they wanted to and they would dominate the space because of the exclusives. Would you buy that service for 20 dollars? I would. Would people buy a PS4 because of that service? Certainly. I think their studios have good chemistry and you can see how they work together, it’s evident in their work. I think this is more in the line of not fixing what isn’t broke opposed to being something they “can’t” do. They could absolutely dominate that space if they wanted. Why compete though? You’re winning.