Xbox-baas Phil Spencer sprak met IGN over de Xbox-consoles en Xbox Game Pass. Ryan van IGN vroeg Spencer op een gegeven moment over het succes van Xbox Game Pass en dat er geruchten zijn dat Sony met een eigen alternatief gaat komen.
Volgens Spencer is het heel normaal dat Sony werkt aan een eigen alternatief. Spencer zegt dat het geven van keuzes aan gamers altijd de juiste keuze is.
“I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out, but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things,” he said.
“So when I hear others doing things like Game Pass or coming to PC, it makes sense to me because I think that’s the right answer.”
Spencer continued: “I don’t really look at it as validation. I actually, when I’m talking to our teams, I talk about it as an inevitability. So for us, we should continue to innovate, continue to compete, because the things that we’re doing might be advantages that we have in the market today, but they’re just based on us going first, not that we’ve created something that no one else can go create.
“I like it because it feeds our energy on what are the next things that we should be working on as we continue to build out the things that we’ve done in the past. Because I think the right answer is to ship great games, ship them on PC, ship them on console, ship them on cloud, make them available Day 1 in the subscription. And I expect that’s what our competitor will do.”
Geruchten gaan dat Sony in de lente van 2022 met een nieuwe PlayStation Plus-tier gaat komen. Dit project heet intern bij Sony ‘Spartacus’. Dit model bevat alle voordelen van PlayStation Plus, inclusief PlayStation Now en toegang tot een bibliotheek aan oude games.
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