Sony is working on a competitor to Xbox Game Pass. While Microsoft’s popular subscription service is gaining ground even in markets that aren’t traditionally its strong suit like India, the PlayStation company doesn’t really have an existing product to compete. Not for long though according to God of War creator David Jaffe.
In a recently uploaded video on his YouTube channel (via VGC), Jaffe says Sony is working on a “counterpunch” to Xbox Game Pass. You can check out the video for yourself right here.
“I’ve said time and again that people who are writing Jim Ryan’s obituary are way premature,” he says.
“We had the guy on the show yesterday that had made the petition to fire Jim Ryan and I was like, ‘dude, that’s way premature’ because Jim Ryan doesn’t owe anybody, Sony doesn’t owe anybody, the truth about what’s coming and what their counterpunch to Game Pass is.
“What I can tell you is I know they are doing some stuff because I know people at Sony who have told me that they are doing some stuff,” he continues. “There will be a response to Game Pass.
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“What it is we don’t know,” Jaffe added. “Here’s what I would say I worry about. If Jim Ryan thinks the proper response to Game Pass is to emulate backwards compatibility, PS3 games, PS2, PS1, and then to also add Trophies, which is what that patent suggests they’re going to do, and they’re also going to fold in all the movies and shit and make a streaming service, he’s absolutely wrong if he thinks that mixing it with PS Now [is the right way forward].
“That would make me go, ‘I don’t think the man has a clue’, because that’s not going to compete with Game Pass, but I don’t know if that’s the case, but I don’t think Jim Ryan is ready to throw under the bus at all.”
Interestingly, Ryan himself hinted a response to Xbox Game Pass was in the offing.
“There is actually news to come, but just not today,” he said when asked how PlayStation will respond to Game Pass in a November 2020 interview with Russian news outlet TASS. “We have PlayStation Now which is our subscription service, and that is available in a number of markets,” he continued.
That said, the PS5 itself is next to impossible to find in most markets such as India. However with a restock on the way, this might change sooner than later. After all, no point in buying a subscription for a console that’s been missing from the store shelves.
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