There is a Value Problem with PlayStation Plus

Okay, so don’t kill the messenger here, this isn’t an attack by any means. It’s an observation, but ever since the PlayStation Plus increased a few months back there hasn’t been an awful lot of value in what subscribers are getting. This is something Sony clearly has to work on. How? We’ll get into that now.

I’ve noticed a lot of new people crossing over to Xbox. Maybe because of the value proposition offered with Game Pass and the fact that Microsoft are investing a billion every year into the service. In comparison, how much is Sony offering? They don’t offer their first-party titles as part of the service and the games have gotten worse since the increase.

A lot of what PlayStation fans have been asking has fallen on deaf ears. Again, just an observation but there is a lot of work that needs to be done to compete. It’s clear, that Xbox is not winning the game sales and console sold market. What they are doing however, is setting a clear benchmark in subscription services and setting themselves up for a pretty rosy future.

A lot of PlayStation players themselves have noticed this drop off in value. That’s noticed by the drop off in subscription growth recently. Players are becoming more savvy in the sense of asking themselves if the said service is actually worth it.

PlayStation players aren’t fully utilising the features to them with PlayStation Plus. Xbox Game Pass has been set up as the entire way you play the latest Xbox first-party. There is a steady growth in this but they’re still not hitting their targets.

Xbox Game Pass looks like it benefits in a better way than PlayStation Plus right now. Will Sony care? It depends how many drop out of their subscription offering.