Sony says Game Pass model for PS Plus would lower game quality

On By Garmin Philip
AAA games to launch on PS Plus? According to Sony that would be too expensive.

AAA games to launch on PS Plus? According to Sony that would be too expensive.
AAA games to launch on PS Plus? According to Sony that would be too expensive.

PS Plus will be switched over on June 22nd. Then, in addition to the previous model, there are two more tiers that allow us to stream and download hundreds of PlayStation games for a monthly fee.

But isn’t that a Game Pass model? On the one hand yes, the services are definitely in competition with each other, but on the other hand they are not, because Sony is more likely to rely on the extensive PlayStation library and will not publish its large in-house productions for the launch on PS Plus. Now the company has once again commented on the background to this decision.

According to Sony, day-one releases on PS Plus would have lasting negative effects

during one Investor Meetings Sony’s CFO Hiroki Totoki commented on the plans for the new PS Plus (via Genki). According to Totoki, Sony spends a lot of money on game development and research, and this has a positive effect on the business in the long term. Should Sony’s AAA games be released on PS Plus in the future in the future, this cost would have to be reduced, which in turn would have negative consequences:

If we were to release AAA games on the PS5 on a subscription service, we would have to lower the investment, which would degrade the quality of the first-party games – that’s our concern. That’s why we want to make sure that our projects have enough budget and are distributed in the right way.

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Totoki gets approval: Sony’s former Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden agrees to the statements Twitter at. Layden has spoken of skyrocketing development costs in the AAA industry in the past. According to the businessman, if the games were to be published simultaneously in a subscription service, they would no longer be sustainable.

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Swipe against Microsoft: Totoki said he doesn’t want to comment on the competition, but his statements show a clear stance on Microsoft’s Game Pass. Because if Sony had to lower the quality, that would already be the case with the competition.

However, games like Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite are already proving the opposite. However, since Microsoft is reluctant to provide numbers for their service, we cannot say to what extent the Game Pass is really worth it financially.

Would you like to have the first-party games with lower quality directly in the new PS Plus or would you rather pay full price?



Reference-www.gamepro.de