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Amid reports Sony is overhauling its PlayStation Plus service into something more closely resembling Game Pass, Xbox head Phil Spencer has said he thinks it’s an “inevitability” competitors will begin adopting the model because it’s “the right answer”.<\/p>\n

“I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out [at Xbox]”, Spencer told IGN<\/a> when quizzed on the recent reports involving Sony, “but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things.”<\/p>\n

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Amid reports Sony is overhauling its PlayStation Plus service into something more closely resembling Game Pass, Xbox head Phil Spencer has said he thinks it’s an “inevitability” competitors will begin adopting the model because it’s “the right answer”. “I don’t mean it to sound like we’ve got it all figured out [at Xbox]”, Spencer told IGN when quizzed on the recent reports involving Sony, “but I think the right answer is allowing your customers to play the games they want to play, where they want to play them, and giving them choice about how they build their library, and being transparent with them about what our plans are in terms of our PC initiatives and our cross-gen initiatives and other things.” Read more 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