
Microsoft has drastically changed the landscape of the video game industry over the last few years, from its Xbox Game Pass subscription offering to its yet-to-be-finalized purchase of Activision Blizzard. Even as Xbox lags behind in terms of first-party software, Game Pass has helped the platform surge ahead, and won over millions of new fans in the process. This has left Sony to play catch-up, and a new statement from the company seems to underscore a key flaw in its own subscription offering.