A December report stated Sony is working on its own version of the Xbox/PC Game Pass codenamed Spartacus, where players pay a monthly subscription fee to play a selected bunch of games for a particular console. Xbox boss Phil Spencer reacts positively to this piece of news, according to an IGN interview.

“I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out, but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they wanna play, where they wanna play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things.

So when I hear others doing things like Game Pass or coming to PC, it makes sense to me because I think that’s the right answer.”

Spencer sees Sony’s Game Pass strategy as “an inevitability” rather than “validation” for Microsoft’s approach to exist.

“We should continue to innovate, continue to compete, because the things that we’re doing might be advantages that we have in the market today, but they’re just based on us going first, not that we’ve created something that no one else can go create.”

With the Xbox Game Pass (and PC) being a huge success over time, it’s only natural for the competition to follow suite. The PlayStation brand has a ton of classics from the PS1 onward back in the mid-90s, so having a Game Pass service for PlayStation Network would be incredibly ideal; you’ll definitely have more than a handful of exclusive PlayStation games to play on your PS5, assuming you found one in 2022.