My gut feeling is that this would be more of an advantage for Sony than it would be for Microsoft, if it did happen, and I think that despite all Microsoft’s talk about wanting Game Pass and their titles everywhere, they still may draw the line at PlayStation. This would also complicate sales of third party games that are both for sale on PlayStation and offered free on Game Pass. Game Pass chokes out your own subscription/streaming ambitions. This would cut into PS Plus and PS Now or whatever Spartacus combination that happens between those soon. Sony: It would be somewhat humiliating to recognize the dominance of Xbox Game Pass by accepting it into the PlayStation ecosystem, essentially surrendering the entire subscription service side of the business. You expand Game Pass’s reach while possibly killing off the entire need for an Xbox at all. You have just paid $80 billion for a bunch of developers and all those games are now going directly on your competitor’s platform. Microsoft: Renders the actual Xbox more or less totally inert, because a Game Pass-accessible PlayStation is just…empirically better, given that all Sony’s offerings are there as well. I am…less worried about Stadia’s influence at the moment, as that entire concept has yet to prove itself.But I think there’s a way of looking at this that’s Lose-Lose instead: This may make sense for Sony given how high quality its first party releases usually are, but if Microsoft can start to produce its own must-haves (and Gears 5 was a good start) this could become a selling point for Xbox over PlayStation pretty quickly. Xbox is launching games like Gears 5 and Halo Infinite as part of the Game Pass on day one while Sony still wants to sell new copies of those titles for $60 apiece at launch with no option to get them with a Now subscription. Of course, one of the primary differences between PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass is that Sony has yet to get on board with the idea of offering its new exclusives part of the service. That $10 puts it on track with Xbox Game Pass and Google Stadia, and in addition this news, PlayStation announced that it would also be getting God of War, GTA 5, Infamous: Second Son and Uncharted 4 as part of the Now subscription for the next three months with plans to rotate “marquee” games in for similarly limited amounts of time after that.
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