The gaming world changes with every single generation that comes around, that’s just the nature of things, and we’re honestly better because of it. Things that we can do now weren’t even possible back in the days of the original three console generations, and so it’s fair that companies like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo want to ensure that they take the right steps as they move into these new leaps and status quos.
For example, for the Xbox Game Pass, they have gotten praise for having recently launched 1st and 3rd party games on the service either right away or soon after. For Sony, their PS Plus program doesn’t offer that, and that’s all for a good reason in the minds of the head of their gaming division:
“We feel like we are in a good virtuous cycle with the studios,” explains PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, “where the investment delivers success, which enables yet more investment, which delivers yet more success. We like that cycle and we think our gamers like that cycle.”
He continues: “[In terms of] putting our own games into this service, or any of our services, upon their release… as you well know, this is not a road that we’ve gone down in the past. And it’s not a road that we’re going to go down with this new service. We feel if we were to do that with the games that we make at PlayStation Studios, that virtuous cycle will be broken. The level of investment that we need to make in our studios would not be possible, and we think the knock-on effect on the quality of the games that we make would not be something that gamers want.”
This doesn’t mean of course that things can’t change, it’s just that it looks like it won’t be changing in the near future.
Source: GameIndustry.Biz
