Rumors swell on the side of home sony, which would prepare a merger between its services Playstation Now and PS+, in order to counter the PC/Xbox Game Pass of Microsoft. For the moment, there is nothing official, the Japanese giant has not communicated on the subject, but on the side of Microsoft, the team is confident. And she has what, with the recent takeover ofActivision-Blizzard.
Phil Spencer, Branch Manager Xbox, spoke with IGN about Spartacus, of course he has nothing official to communicate to us, but even if the merger has to happen, he sees it as something inevitable, in perfect harmony with the current policy of the market and Microsoft, that of offering a maximum of games to a maximum of players on a maximum of platforms:
As you know so many things are tied together, from (backward compatibility) as a tool to shape a library of games that we release on PC and console simultaneously (…) to knowing that Game Pass is coming and that we want to bring Game Pass to multiple platforms – All of these decisions pile on top of each other.
I don’t want to sound like I have it all figured out, but I think the right answer is to allow its customers to play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and give them the choice of how to build their libraries, while being transparent about the goals in terms of PC initiatives or cross-gen initiatives and other things. Therefore when I hear others are doing things like Game Pass or want to come to PC, that makes sense to me, because that’s the correct answer.
I don’t see that as validation. In fact, when I speak with the teams, I speak of inevitability. For us, it is necessary to continue to innovate, to be competitive, because there are things that we do that can be an advantage for this market today, but it is just based on the fact that we have done it first, not that we’ve created something no one else can do.
It’s better, because it boosts our energy towards the next ideas that we should work on to continue building on what has been started before. ‘Cause I think the right path is to launch great games, launch them on PC, on console, on the cloud, and make them available D-Day with the subscription. And I think that’s what the competition is going to do.
With Spartacus and the Game Pass, so we should have the productions of sony and Microsoft directly into their respective subscription services upon release, and playable on a host of platforms. At the house of Microsoft, the strategy is already paying off, the manufacturer sells record figures of Xbox Series X | S and the number of subscribers to the Game Pass skyrockets. sony should therefore follow this path, business to follow. In the meantime, you can still subscribe to the Playstation Plus via Amazon.
| Clint008 Writer – Tester |
