Sony Prepares a Response to Game , Suggests God of War Dev
In a video posted on his YouTube channel, David Jaffe, who worked on the God of War and Twisted Metal series, among others, revealed that Sony is working on some sort of larger move to counter Xbox Game . However, it's not clear what exactly it is.
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Xbox Game subscription, often referred to as "Netflix for gaming," is becoming increasingly popular among gamers. Earlier, this year Plus Collection, which consists of just 20 titles.
As recently as last September, Jim Ryan - head of Sony Interactive Entertainment - shunned the idea, explaining that it would not be profitable (via rumored collaboration between Hideo Kojima and Microsoft, he revealed, citing his own sources at Sony, that an Xbox Game game is in the pipeline (said at 1:06:00 in the video below).
"We had the guy on the show yesterday that had made the petition to fire Jim Ryan and I was like, ‘dude, that’s way premature’ because Jim Ryan doesn’t owe anybody, Sony doesn’t owe anybody, the truth about what’s coming and what their counterpunch to Game is. What I can tell you is I know they are doing some stuff (...). There will be a response to Game ."
Unfortunately, Jaffe failed to find out what this answer would look like. He noted that in his opinion if it is limited to emulation of games from PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 and adding, for example, the ability to stream videos, it will not be the right move (via VGC).
Jaffe's words can certainly be intriguing. The question is, how much truth there is in them and will Sony actually surprise with an idea that will be able to shake up the market a bit? Let's hope that everything will become clear soon.
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