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Xbox Game Pass and PS Plus have been giving gamers the advantage of playing games they don’t own for no additional fee apart from the subscription price. While both Microsoft and Sony have claimed an increase in subscriptions to both services on the two biggest consoles, the larger picture has been contrastingly different if customer satisfaction is considered.
2023 has been a profitable year for PlayStation 5 which continues to outsell the Xbox Series X|S consoles. PlayStation Plus members are leaving the subscription following the recent price hike which gamers don’t find to be justifying the titles they’re provided with every month. November’s free games list has been one of the most disappointing lists for a while, at least in the eyes of some gamers.
Xbox Game Pass Continues to Offer Better Value For Money Compared to PlayStation Plus
PlayStation Plus recently got a price hike for all three tiers. The Essential tier works out in a similar fashion to Game Pass Core which features limited games and online console multiplayer. The Extra and Premium tiers feature a library of downloadable games for the PS5 and PS4 and streaming capabilities of older classics.
Here’s how fans reacted to the November line-up for the PlayStation Plus catalog.
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One fan onRedditmentioned that while there’s no problem with titles leaving the library, it’s quite unfortunate that “the big games we’ve been getting recently aren’t justifying the price, and are worse games than a lot of the leaving titles even if they are newer“. A reply to that post mentioned that the subscription is losing its value as it’s “way too expensive for a couple of good games and online play.”
Improved Catalog, Better Monthly Titles, and More Day One Access Needed to Bolster PS Plus Subscriptions
One of the biggest advantages of a Game Pass subscription is getting access to games on the day of their launch. A number of titles from the Xbox Game Studios continue to be made available to Game Pass members on Day One. Add to that the titles from EA Play and players get a plethora of titles to choose from and start playing immediately as soon as the membership is activated.
Currently, a similar method isn’t possible with PlayStation Plus as cloud-saved progress does not sync automatically with the locally saved data on the console. The newly launched PlayStation Portable might work on solving remote gaming issues but it still requires a PlayStation 5 console to work. A simple approach to remote gaming, more eligible devices, and cross-save sync between these devices should have been the priority from Sony rather than a console-tethered portable device.
PlayStation Plus seems to remain in the shadows of Game Pass for the foreseeable future at least and will need something drastic to get anywhere close to the race for the best value-for-money subscription.
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Ayoub Hassan Adur
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Ayoub Hassan Adur worked in the Translation Industry for more than a decade before turning to Content Writing. Ayoub loves Gaming and has also written news stories in the gaming industry for two other websites before joining FandomWire Gaming. Manchester United fan since the ’90s.
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