


However, Sony needs to continue to deliver big titles that gamers want to play, and ideally, make more of its first-party content and PS5 content available on the service if it stands any chance of competing with Game Pass. What are PS Now and Xbox Game Pass In short, PS Now and Xbox Game Pass are subscription services that offer hundreds of digital games, each playable on console (or PC) for a.

You can also download some PS2 games as part of PS Now but not PS3 titles.Įven though both Marvel’s Avengers and Borderlands 3 aren’t new releases, neither are available on Xbox Game Pass right now – though we expect the former to appear sooner rather than later, if Microsoft’s Square Enix partnership is to be believed. As the popularity of Xbox Game Pass continued to grow, Sony has since let users download games, but only those that are available on PS4 or backwards compatible on PS5. And now onto the comparison that really matters: PlayStation Plus Extra. According to new documents, Sony plans to overhaul its two existing PlayStation. Sony’s PS Now initially started out as a streaming service, and is currently the only way to play PS2 and PS3 games on the PS5 (something which has grown in importance recently, as Sony is shutting down the PS3, PS Vita and PSP storefronts). PlayStation may soon release an updated game subscription service to rival Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass also offers countless Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S optimized games (read: next-gen games to download) which PS Now does not.
