PlayStation Plus Tiered Subscriptions Don't Look Like An Xbox Game Pass Killer

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After months of rumors, Sony has officially unveiled its new version of the PlayStation Plus service. Long-billed by some as the company's answer to Xbox Game Pass, it's not a huge surprise that when "Project Spartacus" was announced, anyone in the gaming community couldn't be blamed if their response to the announcement was a degree of disappointment.

That's not to say that what the new version of Playstation Plus has to offer can't be a game-changer in the near future. The fact that people might have been paying for two separate services in PS Plus and PS Now, and will now find it quite a bit easier to navigate these services once they're combined, means the move by Sony is a good one. However, that alone is nothing close to earth-shattering, and there were some who thought that when Spartacus finally launched, it would indeed be the kind of service that would really give Microsoft something to think about.

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It's pretty clear that while there's nothing inherently wrong with the way Sony is going about rolling out the new PlayStation Plus changes, there are some questions as to why they chose to go about it. This new subscription model is indeed not going to be an Xbox Game Pass killer; it's not even clear if it's going to be a real rival.

Combining PS Now and PlayStation Plus is actually quite similar to what Xbox did when it launched Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. It makes quite a bit of sense to put the game streaming service and the game subscription services together, if for no other reason, than to make it easier on their customers. It's honestly a bit surprising it took this long for Project Spartacus to become a reality when thinking about it in that regard. It seems