It’s been a long time talking about spartacus, the supposed response of Play Station to Xbox Game Pass. In an interview to IGN the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, has spoken aboutand the rumors of the Play Station service similar to Game Pass. Obviously, the reading is positive and expected regarding Microsoft’s movement.
Phil Spencer considers Sony’s changes in Play Station positive
Really, since Phil Spencer took the baton on Xbox replacing Don Mattrick, the way things are done has changed. The PC was no longer seen as a rival platform and options like PlayAnywhere they are simply sensational. Now that Sony is beginning to see a new way of making a profit on the PC, they have invested in a studio to make the ports to PC and it is said that they are working on Spartacus, their version of Game Pass.
The Xbox Leader He has not wanted to boast of his speed when creating Game Pass and promoting it. For Spencer it is more a sign that the industry could take that change and this only reaffirms the changes that are gradually taking place.
«I don’t really see it as a validation. Actually, when I talk to our teams, I talk about it as something inevitable. So for us, we have to keep innovating, keep competing, because the things that we’re doing may be advantages that we have in the market today, but it’s just based on being first, not because we’ve created something that nobody else can create.”
«I like it because it fuels our energy on what are the next things we should be working on as we continue to build on what we’ve done in the past. Because I think the correct answer is to release great games, release them on PC, release them on console, release them in the cloud, make them available day one on subscription. And that’s what I hope our competitor will do«.
At Microsoft they consider backward compatibility another key element. If video games are really considered a type of art, their thing is that they can be enjoyed, even if they are from past generations.