The appearance of new subscription services similar to Game Pass is “inevitable”, says the manager.
In recent days there has been a lot of talk about “Spartacus”, the service with which PlayStation plans to stand up to Xbox Game Pass that would consist of three subscription modalities that merge PS Plus, PS Now and integrate backwards compatibility with PS3, PS2 and PS1 games. A most interesting service for PlayStation fans, even Phil Spencer, Xbox boss, finds it “the right answer”.
“I don’t mean to make it sound like we’ve figured it all out, but I think the right answer is to let your customers play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and give them the option to choose how they want to build their library and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things,” Spencer said in a chat with IGN. “So when I hear others doing things like Game Pass or coming to PC, makes sense to me because I think that’s the right answer.”
For Phil Spencer, the arrival of new subscription services similar to Xbox Game Pass it is something “inevitable”, so they must continue to focus on being competitive. “We must continue to innovate, continue to compete, because the things we are doing may be advantages that we have in the market today, but they are only based on the fact that we go first, not that we have created something that nobody else can create,” he says.
“I like it because it fuels our energy about what are the next things that we should be working on as we continue to build on the things that we’ve done in the past. Because I think the correct answer is to ship great games, ship them on PC, ship them on console, ship them in the cloud, make them available day 1 on subscription. Y I hope that is what our competitor will do”, concludes Spencer.
At the moment, “Spartacus” has not yet been officially announced, although there seem to be indications after the appearance of PS3 games on the PSN and a new patent by Mark Cerny that explains how to achieve backwards compatibility between PS5 and PS3 games, PS3 and PS1. as to whether it will be a Game Pass-like service where PlayStation carries its games on Day 1, it doesn’t seem too compatible with PlayStation development policy, but we’ll have to wait and see.
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