PlayStation boss Jim Ryan has explained why he believes a Game Pass model just isn’t sustainable for Sony.
Xbox made a number of announcements last week – seven days earlier that it intended – including the reveal of the Series S and how much its next-gen consoles will cost. However, perhaps the most exciting announcements made revolved around its Game Pass. Not only will it cost Xbox users just $35 a month, but starting later this year, the subscription will also include EA Play.
That announcement will have swayed the next-gen war in Xbox’s favor for a lot of people. Cue Sony’s response via last night’s PS5 Showcase Event. That response came in the form of something PlayStation has dubbed the PS Plus Collection. A handful of some of the PS4’s best games included in the price of a PS Plus subscription on PS5, including Bloodborne and a remastered version of The Last Of Us.
Anyone who plans on buying a PS5 in the hope that the PS Plus Collection will one day become something more is going to be left disappointed. PlayStation boss Jim Ryan spoke with GamesIndustry.biz shortly after last night’s showcase at which point he was asked about the potential of the PS5 getting its very own version of Game Pass.
“We are not going to go down the road of putting new release titles into a subscription model,” Ryan explained. He said that since many of PlayStation’s top titles cost more than $100 million to develop, putting them behind a subscription model would simply not be sustainable. “We want to expand and grow our existing ecosystem, and putting new games into a subscription model just doesn’t sit with that.”
After Ryan had clarified all of that, he went on to talk about the PS Plus Collection and its advantages. The PS boss described it as basically being like getting a PS4 free with a PS5 for nothing more than the price of a monthly PS Plus subscription. He also hopes that it will convince anyone who wasn’t with PlayStation during the current generation to buy a PS5 during the next.
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