"The knock-on effect on the quality of the games that we make would not be something that gamers want."
Sony will not include day one launch first-party titles inside its new PlayStation Plus Premium offering because it believes such a move would impact the quality of its titles.
Speaking with Games Industry, Sony’s Jim Ryan explained his reasoning.
“We feel like we are in a good virtuous cycle with the studios where the investment delivers success, which enables yet more investment, which delivers yet more success. We like that cycle and we think our gamers like that cycle,” Ryan said.
“[In terms of] putting our own games onto this service, or any of our services, upon their release… as you well know, this is not a road that we’ve gone down in the past. And it’s not a road that we’re going to go down with this new service. We feel that if we were to do that with the games that we make at PlayStation Studios, that virtuous cycle will be broken. The level of investment that we need to make in our studios would not be possible, and we think the knock-on effect on the quality of the games that we make would not be something that gamers want.”
That being said, Ryan incidated the strategy mightn’t always be the case.
“The way the world is changing so very quickly at the moment, nothing is forever. Who would have said even four years ago that you would see AAA PlayStation IP being published on PC,” Ryan continued.
“I don’t want to cast anything in stone at this stage. All I’m talking about today is the approach we’re taking in the short term. The way our publishing model works right now, it doesn’t make any sense. But things can change very quickly in this industry, as we all know.”
We’ve detailed PlayStation Plus tiers and pricing here.
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