- PlayStation sticks to its strategy of not launching first -party games on PS Plus on first day
- PlayStation Vice President of Global Services Nick Maguire says “We don’t want to put games today and date”
- He adds that bringing games to the service 12-18 months after they have released, “works really well across the platform”
PlayStation has confirmed that it will stick to its current launch strategy and will not start releasing first -party games on PS Plus on the first day.
In an interview with the game file, PlayStation Vice President of Global Services Nick Maguire explained that the company is not looking to change its policy by adding first -party titles to the subscription service the same day they release, unlike Xbox with Game Pass.
“We have remained true to our strategy everywhere we do not want to put games today and date,” Maguire said.
Xbox has been consistent with how it releases exclusive titles, just as Starfield and Indiana Jones and the big circleFor Game Pass, as Maguire continues to explain, Sony only adds its first -party titles to PS Plus at least 18 months after launch.
“Our strategy of finding four or five independent day and -date titles -and using it to supplement our strategy of bringing games when they are 12, 18 months old or older -that balance for us works really well across the platform,” he said. “If there were six or seven great options, we would go after them too.”
Good of war ragnarokLaunched at the end of 2022 was not available on PS Plus until January 2025, almost 26 months later, while Horizon Forbidden Westwhich was released in February 2022, was added much before February 2023, before it was later removed from the service in 2024.
On the question of PlayStation would ever consider adding first-party live-service games to PS Plus, which Concord – A game that was taken offline after only two weeks – Maguire refused to comment, but said the service has “proved to be a good way to introduce new players to franchises”.
“There will always be a moment for any game where there is the right time for it to go into plus when it is ready to reach a wider audience or … to find new fans or new parts of our platform that it has not already reached,” Maguire said.
