With multiplayer free on the PlayStation 3 in 2010, PlayStation Plus had to begin as something you would want. It’s also that Xbox Live Gold started (in 2005) by selling you something you need - online multiplayer. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Jack Tretton at E3 2010, at which PlayStation Plus and its offer of free games to continual subscribers was announced. Of course, a big part of this is simply because Sony does not bundle PS Plus and PlayStation Now, its games-on-demand service, the way Microsoft is aggressively pushing Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass together. It really does highlight how Sony sees PlayStation Plus, and why that program doesn’t face the kind of existential crisis that Xbox Live’s Games With Gold seems to go through every other month. But you need that PS5 to get these PS4 games, even if you’ve been a PlayStation Plus subscriber since day one and have every intention of continuing that onto Sony’s new hardware. Ten have been offered under the PlayStation Plus Instant Games Collection before, and 10 have not. Twenty games in all, 10 from Sony’s Worldwide Studios, 10 from its biggest friends in AAA gaming. So in September, the company announced an IOU of sorts for anyone committed to buying one: The PlayStation Plus Collection. None would dispute the console is the holidays’ it-toy. Well, almost 45 years later, isn’t that where Sony kind of finds itself, too? Analysts, pundits, and upset fans can argue over what type of consumer demand the company should have been able to anticipate - or meet, during a pandemic - for the PlayStation 5.
So the toymaker did the next best thing it could do: Kenner sold, literally, an IOU. They had no product in the pipeline for the first Star Wars Christmas. In 1977, Kenner was flat ambushed by the demand for Star Wars toys.
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