Game news PS5: Sony Is Considering New Subscription To Compete With Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, Details!
It’s now been a little over a year since new generation consoles entered the video game market. Both manufacturers, namely Sony and Microsoft, had their ups and downs between increased gaming experience, component shortages and much more.
Currently, Sony and the PlayStation 5 are slightly ahead in terms of sales. However, Microsoft, for its part, has strong arguments to keep the competition going, including a fleet of gamers that is very well established within its Xbox Game Pass program. A success that the Japanese manufacturer makes a little jealous of him, because despite his PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now services it does not manage to withdraw from the game by subscription in the field of video game services. Long billed as a video game by Netflix, Xbox Game Pass has proven its effectiveness since its inception and Sony seems determined to hunt down Microsoft’s land with a brand new service, as reported in the latest Bloomberg poll.
Sony enters the arena with the “Spartacus” project
With a name like that, Sony seems determined to take revenge on Microsoft for subscription video games.. In general, the Japanese manufacturer is allocating more and more resources to advance its efforts in this area, but it seems the company is looking to deal a big blow in the months ahead.
SCOOP: Sony is planning a new subscription service, codenamed Spartacus, to include the Xbox Game Pass. It is offered as a three-tier service that merges PlayStation Now with PlayStation Plus. The highest tier could include PS1 / PS2 / PSP games https://t.co/rz5tC3ExcR
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If we know that the Xbox Game Pass manages to attract more than 18 million subscribers, it doesn’t take Sony anymore to try to reproduce an equivalent system with its impressive pool of players: it currently has more than 116 million owners of PS4 and just over 13 million happy owners of PS5. The service, codenamed “Spartacus”, could launch next spring and would involve some changes to existing subscriptions as well as a much larger catalog!
A merger of services and a tiered system!
Among the information Bloomberg has gathered thanks to its sources, one of them is pretty amazing! In the idea, Sony would consider keeping the PlayStation Plus brand, but could bid farewell to PlayStation Now. Rest assured, the benefits of PlayStation Now won’t go away, but they will Part of the new service de Sony, en l’Occurrence «Spartacus».
Thus, all PlayStation services would be grouped under a single banner with a system of successive tiers that we imagine would be enhanced by different prices. It’s not all set in stone yet, but according to Bloomberg’s findings “Spartacus” would be a service divided into three different levels, which, thanks to a monthly subscription, would give access to a catalog of modern and classic games extracted from the old consoles.
The first Landing would be corresponds to the advantages of the PlayStation Plus service, the second, he would a. to offer pretty large catalog of PS4 titles and possibly PS5. Last but not least, the third and last level would allow subscribers a large selection of demos, the ability to play certain games in streaminglike what PlayStation Now offers, but also to access a whole library of titles released on PS1, PS2, PS3 and even PSP!
All of this has yet to be officially confirmed, but Sony could deal a big blow in the subscription area. There is only one thing left that could make players tick: the price of the different levels! See you in the spring or a little earlier to find out what’s going on?
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