PlayStation’s answer to the Game Pass, Project Spartacus, has been rumored for quite a while now, and it seems like Sony might finally be gearing up to reveal it as soon as next week. The subscription-based service will reportedly combine PS Plus and PS Now, with the highest tier offering backward compatible iconic titles.
Sony’s gaming division PlayStation is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the gaming industry. With a lineup of top-tier AAA developers across the world, from Santa Monica to Insomniac to Guerrilla Games, the company has an amazing first-party games library to complement its two-decade-old console family.
Over the last couple of years, Xbox’s subscription-based service, Game Pass, has revolutionized the gaming industry business. The subscription-based service offers players hundreds of top-tier titles, including day 1 launches, for a monthly fee. The service has not only encouraged players to pick up and try new titles but opened up the opportunity for developers to bring their titles to a much wider audience.
From EA revamping their EA Access to EA Play, to Ubisoft launching Ubisoft +, more and more developers have shown interest in following Game Pass’s footstep and offering their titles in a subscription service.
Sony, who is notorious for being one of the first to increase the prices of AAA titles from $60/- to $70/- and locking the next-generation upgrade behind a paywall, has also taken notice of Game Pass and how that has encouraged players to pick up Xbox Series X|S this generation as their primary console, over PS 5.
Project Spartacus has been rumored for a while now, and according to Bloomberg, Sony is gearing up to officially unveil it as soon as next week. The service will reportedly launch
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