It also gives you priority shipping if you order physical goods from Sony's online store. As a result, you shouldn't ever have to pay full price, especially if you wait until around Black Friday to renew your subscription. You can join either service on a monthly basis, but this ends up costing a lot more.
Unless you're only looking to play online for a short time, paying yearly makes much more sense. At the time of writing, Microsoft isn't selling month Gold subscriptions directly, but you can still buy them from GameStop and similar retailers. While it's a separate service, we must mention Xbox Game Pass in this discussion, as Microsoft offers a bundled plan that can save you money.
See our overview of Xbox Game Pass first if you're not familiar. If you're interested in Game Pass and were going to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold anyway, this is a great option.
There's no real "winner" between the two services, but they do have some key differences. Either one is required for online multiplayer, and the free games and discounts are effectively a wash. If you mostly play free-to-play games like Apex Legends and Rocket League, then a PlayStation system lets you enjoy these without paying a subscription. It's also nice that you don't need PS Plus to use party chat on Sony's systems. Xbox has a few points in its favor, too. If you're willing to pay a bit more, Game Pass Ultimate is an excellent value.
And not needing Xbox Live Gold for cloud storage on an Xbox console is also valuable. Whichever system you play on, you'll get a lot of value out of either service. PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass both offer hundreds of games for one monthly price, but which is better value for money? He left his IT job to write full-time in and has never looked back.
He's been covering tech tutorials, video game recommendations, and more as a professional writer for over seven years. PlayStation Now vs. It's not that much of a gap honestly, but you know what fans are like. Either way Steam went out more so PC users might be the real victims for once. You can see that all the big gaming platforms have some work to do here, but whether they will is another question.
It should be said in their defense, playing games hoovers up bandwidth compared to almost any other activity you can do online so their servers must be strained like nobody's business. But unlike so many of the other services - we are paying for Xbox Live and these days the PlayStation Plus membership. If you find you're getting annoyed with these outages remember that for a lot of games you don't even need the Gold or Plus memberships respectively to play.
Still, got a few moments left to browse? The Xbox Play Anywhere initiative , which includes select titles, allows gamers access to games on both their Xbox One and their Windows 10 PC at no additional charge. The big deal for Xbox, though, is Game Pass. As you can see in our roundup of the best games on Xbox Game Pass , almost all of the titles in the library are excellent, from AAA titles like Doom Eternal to indie hits like The Messenger.
So far, no one, not even Sony, has challenged Microsoft with its Game Pass service. Sony changed the service shortly after launching, allowing subscribers to download most PS4 games on the service, as well as a list of PS2 games. As our best games on PS Now roundup shows, there are some solid titles available, and the library is even larger than Game Pass.
A lot of the library is filler, though. The Kinect was a useful launch peripheral for the Xbox One, but Microsoft has since discontinued the motion-sensing camera, leaving new Xbox One players with no good way to capture their face if they want to livestream a game.
On the other hand, we were blown away by the PSVR , and as the list of compatible games grows, so too will the value of the VR set itself. In any case, PSVR is surprisingly refined and extremely fun. Though it can often get crowded as you build up your library, you can sort games into custom folders to ease the scrolling burden. The interface is designed to work similarly to that of Windows 10, and though it may take some time to properly acclimate, the design is far more accessible and intuitive once you do.
Microsoft also updates the Xbox One interface regularly, adding features at the behest of the gaming community. Out of the console family, the Xbox One S is the only one that Microsoft is still shipping to retailers. Sony has already taken this step in Japan, so other regions should follow shortly. With the new console generation already kicking, you should see fewer new consoles from both companies over the next several months. The original Xbox One had numerous issues.
The base consoles are equal on their new price, with a slight edge going to Microsoft in the pre-owned market. Between the base consoles, the Xbox One has an edge. The base PS4 is limited to p while the base Xbox One supports a max resolution of p. The mid-generation updates from both manufacturers can output up to 4K resolution, as can the Xbox One S. The PS4 Slim is still limited to p. The Xbox One has a few more things going on outside of streaming. All other revisions of the Xbox One, however, include a 4K Blu-ray drive.
The future of the PS4, however, looks a bit grimmer.
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