Sony Won't Budge on PlayStation Plus Day-One Releases For First-Party Games (gamefile.news) 16
PlayStation will continue withholding its first-party games from PlayStation Plus on launch day, despite Xbox offering day-one releases through Game Pass. Nick Maguire, PlayStation's vice president of global services, told Game File the company remains committed to its current approach of adding first-party titles to the subscription service 12 to 18 months after release. "We've sort of stayed true to our strategy across the board, where we're not looking to put games in day and date," Maguire said.
PlayStation instead selects four to five independent games annually for day-one PlayStation Plus releases, a strategy Maguire described as "working really well across the platform."
PlayStation instead selects four to five independent games annually for day-one PlayStation Plus releases, a strategy Maguire described as "working really well across the platform."
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Microsoft as a strategy seems to not do exclusives anymore: Project Latitude: More Details About the Rumored Plans To Bring Xbox Games To Rival Platforms Out [ign.com]
I think the Microsoft strategy today is "We own and bought a shitload of game studios so we can sell those games everywhere". [gamerant.com]
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good enough at what?
if I want a portable console for ~€500, Steam Deck is the go to option, with a truckload of cheap and free games available, homebrew, etc
if I want pick up and play installed next to TV where I will be spending money on games, €499 for a PS5, €120/year and you have 500+ game titles
I don't see how Switch is option for any of these scenarios, unless money is not of concern, p
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Disclosure: I own a Switch and a SteamDeck. I do not own a Switch 2.
Switch 2 is (broadly speaking) more powerful than the Steamdeck. More importantly though, it plays new Nintendo games. The most popular games for any Nintendo console are generally the first-party titles developed by Nintendo themselves. There is nowhere else you can (legally) go for these games, Nintendo (almost) never releases games outside of its own platforms.
Therefore, if your objective is to play Nintendo games then there is no altern
Why lose the sales? (Score:2)
If there are still enough suckers willing to pay for a Playstation Plus subscription even without the newest games, and if you can then sell some of those games to some of the people who have the subscriptions, that's free money. The only thing that would likely make a real impact on that would be if they saw their subscriptions start to decline and single-title sales increase after some major title came out.
So if you want to make that policy change, pick an upcoming title and convince about a hundred tho
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Good idea, except you also need PS+ to play online games (except F2P games). So no one is going to drop it over day-one first party access if they play online games like COD. Unlike XBox Sony doesn't have a tiered system (Gamepass Core/Ultimate) so PS+ is the only option.
So, "Essential," "Extra," and, "Premium," aren't different tiers? Essential doesn't have a game catalog included. Extra has the game catalog and Ubisoft+ Classics. Premium has everything Extra has as well as trials, game streaming, and Sony Pictures Catalog. Source
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They have a PS5, I doubt they have even 3 friends.
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If there are still enough suckers willing to pay for a Playstation Plus subscription even without the newest games, and if you can then sell some of those games to some of the people who have the subscriptions, that's free money. The only thing that would likely make a real impact on that would be if they saw their subscriptions start to decline and single-title sales increase after some major title came out.
So if you want to make that policy change, pick an upcoming title and convince about a hundred thousand of your friends to all buy that title on release day and drop their Playstation Plus subscriptions on the same day.
And there in lies the rub.
Consoles are all about getting money from suckers one dollar/euro/pound at a time.
Playstation Plus subscriptions are already required for online play for most games, the free games were originally just meant to sweeten the pot and make it seem like you weren't paying a subscription fee for basic functionality. Now that budgets are being squeezed and every console owner is looking for the cheapest way to get the basic functionality hidden behind a paywall, the product is being
They're not in the same position as Microsoft (Score:2)
Microsoft are more desperate here having lost a lot of ground in consoles and trying to pivot to where they are stronger on the Windows desktop, but still so far behind Steam and Epic and others on there. They are trying to integrate Steam and others into their Windows gaming app to get any attention at all from gamers. You might think that Game Pass could be strong on PC but it's not. There are always complaints about how gamers are having problems getting games to run properly through Game Pass, having to
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The golden era for Xbox was the 360 and they've never really recaptured it. There was a brief moment, in that era, in which they had the absolutely superior online capabilities with Xbox Live (that they had really gotten off the ground during the earlier Xbox era). PS2 and early PS3 just did not offer what Xbox did in terms of online capabilities; but once that advantage was gone Xbox lost a lot of that ground and they don't seem to be trending towards recapturing it.
On the PC side of things, I don't see w
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"On the PC side of things, I don't see what they could do at this point to compete with Valve/Steam."
They are really not trying to compete right now. They are in the embrace phase, with their new Xbox app launching steam titles.
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