PlayStation's Game Pass Competitor Could Be Announced Next Week

That's great. I hope it's a good product for Sony owners and is competitive with gamepass because then it's a win for me as a customer of Gamepass. I'm kinda doubtful about this being as good a value as it should be based on recent events with GT7. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

I have no desire to ever buy another Playstation after the PS4 but I enjoy their change up by adding games to the PC. If their Gamepass competitor is added to the PC I would absolutely check it out.

As someone who also owns a PS5, price will be key for me signing up to this service.
No day one games means it NEEDS to be cheaper than GPU.
Needs to be less than £10.99 a month to be competitive or at least other a cheaper 12 month sub like they did/do with PS+ and PS Now.

If the Sony service doesn't launch with first party games day 1, then the service is significantly handicapped in my view.
The older games like Guardians of Galaxy, F1 2021 of recent weeks are great for Game Pass, but it's the day 1 launches which is where I feel the real value lies.
I have the sinking feeling Sony will just launch a service with no day 1 games, priced the same as Ultimate Game Pass and the fanbase will lap it up as the second coming.

It won't be like Game Pass at all. Anyone expecting day one titles (maybe certain indies) will be sorely disappointed. This is going to be combining Plus and Now. I don't expect this to be like GP in the slightest. However, I do agree with some that the price is key.

Its not going to be gamepass. Their 1st party are too high quality and budget to put on subscription service day 1. Plus they sell well without

While the media keeps drumming this up as a “Gamepass competitor” it’s clearly going to be its own kind of service. But as a owner of both consoles I’m excited - this could be a great service for PS5 and competition will drive MS to keep improving Gamepass. Everyone wins, especially if you’re a multi-platform gamer.

@Rmg0731

"Its not going to be gamepass. Their 1st party are too high quality and budget to put on subscription service day 1."

Do you have any information on development costs for FH5 v GT7 or Halo Infinite v HFW? If you do not, then your claim is just conjecture and echochamber console warrior narrative.

But keep telling yourself that my man, Sony needs people like you😁

If it’s the rumored tiered system, it sounds like they are taking what they already have and making it more expensive.

@uptownsoul

But of course, have you not heard about the always online super generously MTX ridden GT7? It's all a conspiracy, gaming companies can only nickel and dime you via subscription services 🙄.....unbelievable.

Sounds more like a Nintendo Online competitor.

Yeh I wanna pay lots of money a month so I can play demos of the day one games that should be included with that price !!!!! Oh gp must be ***** it lmfao

@uptownsoul

Well not really , your post implied that subscriptions are the only avenue to nickel and dime us, and I have given an example as to why it is not so. However, if I have misunderstood your post, I stand corrected.

I really hope that this will be competitive to Gamepass. Better for Gamepass owners. If not.. we might get an higher monthly fee for Gamepass pretty soon.

Competition is always good. If its a good service I will subscribe. The leaks do not sound promising but I never trust the leaks and will just wait for the announcement before judging

From what I've read and gathered, it seems to be a little convoluted. Three tiers, supposedly, the first being quite similar to ps+; the second tier being ps+ and now, combined; the third being those with additional demos and longer trials. But no mentions of first party titles being released day one, etc. To be honest, I'm kind of burnt out on "subscription services".

Glad to hear it’s hitting soon. I hope it will be good as it not only benefits me personally (owning both PlayStation and Xbox platforms) it will also benefit Xbox gamers Microsoft having that competition in the subscription space.

I reckon it will be plus and now together alongside first party game trials…it will be a shame not to have the full games (maybe some of the older titles will end up fully on it) but at least I’ll get to try some of these £70 games before shelling out for them.
I just hope it doesn’t become such a success that it backfires on Xbox gamers and Microsoft end up releasing yet another subscription tier that allows full games…and limits what we pay for now with their own game trails.

One thing I know for sure is that soon as this hits all the moaning about gaming subscriptions killing the gaming industry, and ‘worrying about the devs’, will suddenly be replaced with ‘gamepass killer’ and how much they now love subscription services.

Not interested. Microsoft got me into their ecosystem with game pass and It would be hard to peel me away. I had the Wii, Wii, 3ds and the switch and I don’t touch them anymore. I got the PS4 instead of the One because I liked PlayStation plus because I was low income for years. Their new exclusives never clicked for me and I thought the system and ui and controllers were shoddy. Testing out the waters with game pass on my pc and was amazed with the games I missed. Waited 10 hours to get an X and took days off of work to dive in and haven’t come up yet.

Not really interested in subscription services aside from that consoles exclusives, third party games and indies I'd rather just buy as I get to play them whenever I want or keep them. I don't mind too much on xbox with gamepass as I use the service purely for exclusives machine but the playstation 5 is my main console which I buy my games on and do not want to be "renting" my games and relying on that service to supply me the games I want or miss out on them.

@Royalblues It's Sony own cloud servers, they don't need Microsoft.

Gonna be fun to watch the fanboys all flame each other

@Snake_V5 I’m under the impression Sony uses Microsoft’s Azure.

Gamepass has lost some of its appeal for me over the last 2 years of owning it. Maybe it is because I am trying to eventually cancel all my subscriptions (two to go) or that I have caught up to nearly all the big games I wanted to play on the service.

I really have no interest in a sony sub. I do not play anything online there and by the time their 1st party games hit the service they will likely be at or near price reduction time anyway.

This is definitely a good thing, competition is good, makes it so they can't get complacent and lazy.

Time will tell but I feel it’s very unlikely they will get me to subscribe for that service. As it stands I only play first party games and FFXIV on my PS5, and as of late been playing XIV on my PC.

Given first party games are unlikely to enter the service day one, and I still doubt they will permanently add legacy first party games in… I can’t see what they will do to add enough value for me personally.

It really doesn't sound like Game Pass to me, but everyone loves a good story so they're comparing this rumored service to GPU.

@pip_muzz Sony can’t put day 1 exclusives on a subscription service, it’d cost too much. PS exclusives have always sold way more than Xbox exclusives. Game Pass doesn’t make a profit yet, Microsoft have much deeper pockets than Sony, thry can afford to take a bigger hit.

@PhhhCough Sony can’t put day 1 exclusives on a subscription service, it’d cost too much. PS exclusives have always sold way more than Xbox exclusives. Game Pass doesn’t make a profit yet, Microsoft have much deeper pockets than Sony, thry can afford to take a bigger hit.