Microsoft Accuses Sony Of Paying Publishers To Keep Games Off Xbox Game Pass

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Sony could be offering more money to developers to keep games off Game Pass than Microsoft is offering to put them on Game Pass. Paul Tassi explains:

This accusation does feel like an escalation, however. A “normal” process here would maybe be some sort of bidding war between Sony and Microsoft as to which game gets to come to PS Plus or Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft is instead saying that Sony is just paying developersonly, apparently meaning that the game would just be sold for full price on both the PlayStation and Xbox ecosystems.

Console fanboy wars aside, there really is no defense of this practice from a consumer perspective. This is not company’s battling over the rights to offer games as part of their subscription service, but literally one company paying developers togo on its rival’s service. PlayStation players do not “win” or gain anything in this scenario, Xbox players just lose.

We will see if Sony responds to what Microsoft has claimed in these documents, and this fight is likely far from over.

 

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