That’s why the company has been gobbling up game studios and publishers as fast as it can. The hardware bolsters the service, not the other way around. Microsoft wants to sell you a Netflix-style subscription and let you play games on console, PC, mobile, tablet, smart TVs, and maybe a smart thermostat by the end of the year. While it’s still happy to sell individual Xbox consoles and games, the old-fashioned console platform appears to be secondary to the Xbox Game Pass service itself. (Or maybe a PS4 if you still can’t find one.) PlayStation Plus is an extension of that approach, but not a draw in and of itself.Ĭontrast this with Microsoft’s approach. Though Sony is expanding its PC offerings, at the end of the day, it wants to sell you a new PlayStation 5. Sony’s approach makes sense for a company that’s still heavily invested in its console hardware. If you spend $10 a month to get online multiplayer functionality for your console (stop laughing, PC gamers), an extra $8 for a huge library isn’t so bad.
It just means that it’s only a real value proposition if you’re already all-in on the PlayStation gaming platform. That doesn’t mean that PlayStation Plus is worthless. Instead PlayStation Plus will lean on nearly three decades of back catalog titles, and Sony’s offering also notably omits any kind of mobile streaming option. New and alluring console exclusives like Gran Turismo 7 and God of War Ragnarok will still need a hefty $70 purchase on day one, and won’t be offered for streaming for at least some time. So Sony has decided not to compete with Microsoft on one of Xbox Game Pass’s biggest draws: new AAA releases hitting the subscription service on launch day. And again, because it’s a PS5 game, it won’t be playable on the PC streaming portion of the service. Returnal is the newest of those games, and it will still be more than a year old when the new PlayStation Plus service launches in June. The newest catalog game on PlayStation Plus, Returnal, won’t be available to stream on PC
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