PS5 Won’t Get An Xbox Game Pass Competitor, Says PlayStation Boss
Following on from Sony’s PlayStation 5 Showcase, where the console’s price was finally revealed, PlayStation chief Jim Ryan has made it clear once again that there are no plans to launch a competitor to Xbox Games Pass.
Microsoft offers the subscription service across both Xbox and PC, giving players over 100 games to download and play for as little as $10 a month. The kicker is that all of Microsoft’s exclusives launch day and date on Games Pass, which is something Ryan doesn’t see as sustainable.
“These games cost many millions of dollars, well over $100 million, to develop. We just don’t see that as sustainable,” Ryan said in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
Just A Few Months After Launch, Disintegration’s Multiplayer Is Already Shutting Down
Disintegration, the sci-fi shooter from Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto, is losing all its multiplayer modes over the next few months. Developer V1 Interactive said the game didn’t build enough of a player base in order to sustain online multiplayer.
“We stand by the creative risks taken to launch such a unique, genre-bending game created by this small but talented and passionate team,” a post on the studio’s official site read. “While our player base showed interest in the single player campaign, the game unfortunately struggled to build a significant audience necessary for a compelling multiplayer experience. After weighing options, we have collectively made the decision to sunset the multiplayer support.”
The studio has already removed the in-game store where players could purchase cosmetics. The other multiplayer modes will be removed “in phases” up until November 17.
Xbox Series S Quick Resume Feature Highlighted In New Trailer
As previously revealed for the Xbox Series X, Microsoft has shown off the Quick Resume feature for the company’s Series S as well in a new trailer.
The feature lets you seamlessly switch between multiple games without exorbitant loading screens or startup times. With Quick Resume, you can play one game, pause that one to pick up your progress in a completely different game, and repeat without any hiccups. The trailer, embedded below, shows someone switching between Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Minecraft Dungeons, Skate 3, Black, and back to Jedi Fallen Order with only a few seconds of delay between each swap.
The trailer is reminiscent of the Xbox Series X Quick Resume demo that dropped in March 2020. That video showed someone swapping between State of Decay 2, Forza Motorsport 7, Ori and the Blind Forest, The Cave, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, and back to State of Decay 2 with no issues.
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