Hating Game Pass Makes You Look Foolish

[Machiavellian]

Shinobi-san said:

Machiavellian said:

How many companies do you know has the capability to actually do something on the scale of GP.  Think about it this way, MS owns the software and hardware and server farms around the world.  They have invested billions on those server farms and continue to invest more.  MS is a software/service company now unlike what they were before and thus GP fits right into what they do best.  The cost for MS to do something along this line is way cheaper then lets say Sony who would have to purchase space for their service including putting their hardware around the world, upkeep etc.  Think about it this way, even Google and Apple use MS servers to host some of their products, that should tell you something about the global reach and capability of MS in the service space.

Sony has the capability to offer this right now, but they don't. It may not be to the extent at which MS is doing it with the streaming infrastructure etc. but they can offer a version of it. They choose not to for now. Its for obvious reasons.

The big difference between MS and Sony is scope but it also is more an advantage for MS because of the position they are in.  I can assure you that the cost for Sony to run PS Now is way more than  for MS to run GP.  MS does not consider GP tied to the Xbox hardware but instead have a far more aggressive goal which is to put GP on every device that can play games. PS Now is treated like an add on with no real push, GP is treated within MS as another global service like Office and the rest of their suit, the whole company is behind GP success not just the xbox game division.

Now can Sony attempt to go this route, yes but it would cost them way more than they are willing to invest but then by the time if they every would think to do so, it probably would be to late.