Phil Spencer, head of Xbox operations at Microsoft, believes that PlayStation offering a service similar to Xbox Game Pass is inevitable.
In an interview with IGN, Spencer took some time to address rumors of Sony creating an Xbox Game Pass-like service, a model that may become an industry standard.
“I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out, but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they wanna play, where they wanna play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things,” Spencer said. “So when I hear others doing things like Game Pass or coming to PC, it makes sense to me because I think that’s the right answer.”
Xbox Game Pass is a feather in Microsoft’s cap that only seems to see more and more success as time goes on. Halo sold millions of consoles for the company in the past, but even Halo Infinite came to Xbox Game Pass at launch. Even brand-new third-party titles like Rainbow Six Extraction launch day one on the service.
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“I don’t really look at it as validation. I actually, when I’m talking to our teams, I talk about it as an inevitability,” Spencer continues. “So for us, we should continue to innovate, continue to compete, because the things that we’re doing might be advantages that we have in the market today, but they’re just based on us going first, not that we’ve created something that no one else can go create.”
Sony has yet to reveal its Game Pass competitor.
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Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
