Sony kører deres egen Game Pass-lignende tjeneste, PlayStation Now, men denne har ikke nær lige så meget succes, og en af grundene kunne være, at Sony ikke udgiver deres nye førstepartseksklusiver direkte på platformen idet de udkommer, ligesom Microsoft gør.
Og hvorfor gør de ikke det? Jamen, det er ret simpelt - de mener ikke at en sådan beslutning ville være økonomisk forsvarlig for deres forretning. I et interview med GamesIndustry fortæller PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan, sådan en model ville, for PlayStation, være "unsustainable".
"For us, having a catalogue of games is not something that defines a platform. Our pitch, as you've heard, is 'new games, great games.' We have had this conversation before — we are not going to go down the road of putting new releases titles into a subscription model. These games cost many millions of dollars, well over $100 million, to develop. We just don't see that as sustainable. We want to make the games bigger and better, and hopefully at some stage more persistent. So putting those into a subscription model on day one, for us, just doesn't make any sense."
Ryan slår dog fast at det kan give mening for andre virksomheder, og her mener han Microsoft.