Due to the hacking of Insomniac Games, several confidential documents have come to light where Sony talks about the future of PlayStation. According to one of them, the Japanese companies plan to follow a strategy of Xbox and Microsoft to be able to continue competing in the future and rival services like Xbox Game Pass.
Sony wants to bring PlayStation Plus to multiple platforms
According to details, Sony is planning a strategy called Services 3.0, which involves the PlayStation and PS Plus ecosystem. The main idea is to expand that service to multiple platforms, just as Microsoft and Xbox have done with Xbox Game Pass and other of their services.
Everything indicates that, sooner or later, PlayStation Plus will expand to mobiles, computers, TVs and more devices where players can enjoy several of its benefits. With this, Sony wants to capture more users and attract the attention of even more players.
Specifically, the company is interested in gamers who enjoy free-to-play titles and games as a service. To achieve part of its goal, Sony plans to form partnerships to offer the benefits of other services within PlayStation Plus.
This is reminiscent of what Microsoft has done with Xbox Game Pass, which has offered subscriptions to entertainment services with movies and series. An important part of this plan is cloud gaming and streaming titles, so Sony also wants partnerships with companies that produce TVs.
In one of the documents, Sony says it wants PlayStation Plus to be a sort of must-have subscription, offering a wide variety of content to its subscribers.
Now, it's not known if this plan, which is similar to the one Xbox used to expand its ecosystem, is still in place as described or if Sony will make some sort of modification in the future. Nor is it known what the company's forecasts are for completing this ambitious plan.
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