Sony Isn't Making Game Pass, It's Making Nintendo Switch Online
PlayStation is set to announce its Game Pass rival this week, except it isn’t. While we won’t know everything until we have the full details in front of us (you may have seen a very fake ‘leak’ circulating this weekend about a tier system), the main points are that this service will merge the online capabilities and free monthly games of PS+ with the revolving archive of PS Now, while possibly throwing in some older titles too, although it’s unclear how many systems back these older titles will cover. It also won’t include the newest releases, so Sony’s big upcoming titles like God of War Ragnarok will still cost you their regular blockbuster prices, rather than being folded into a single subscription. That, and it’s codenamed Spartacus, which will almost certainly change because that’s a very stupid name.
As is always the case when I write about PlayStation and compare it negatively to Xbox (or vice versa), I feel the need to get out in front of this one - I’m not an Xbox fan nor a PlayStation fan. They’re just tech boxes that sit in my house and allow me to play video games. I’m no more a fan of video game consoles than I am a fan of Toshiba because that’s who makes my TV, or a fan of Russell Hobbs because they make my kettle. These things are just boxes of computer chips that allow us to play games. You might prefer a certain system’s game in this generation, maybe across all the generations, or you admire one over the other from a business point of view. But declaring yourself a fan of a corporation and defending all of its actions point-blank is just silly. Hey, you there. Sony Soldier. You’re silly.
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