It's a conflict of ideologies and wealth, with a collision between the prioritisation of profits from game sales and user acquisition.įirst of all, if you want a variety of nice tables and breakdowns of each service, our chums at Push Square have done a marvellous guide with just that, below.
Exclusives are still key for Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, but we're also sliding into that battle of subscriptions, largely because Game Pass took the established model of selling major first-party games and chucked it in the bin. It used to be the console wars, and we have wistful memories of terms like BLAST processing and Mode 7 in the '90s, while in the more recent generations the battle was over exclusive games. Of course, it's yet another evolution in the subscription wars. It'll go live in June, and it'll be fascinating to see what PlayStation owners choose. It did just that in the end, unveiling three new tiers of PS Plus - the lowest tier broadly represents the current standard PlayStation Plus, a middle tier also includes much of the soon-to-be-defunct PlayStation Now content (adding hundreds of games), and a premium option adds access to a substantial range of retro titles across PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 (streaming) and PSP. There had been rumblings over the past weeks and months that Sony was going to unveil a revamp to its subscription service to compete with Microsoft's Game Pass it had a codename of 'Spartacus' for added effect.
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