Xbox players have to pony up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to get perks. Game Help is a unique and handy feature for PlayStation 5 owners that offers spoiler-free hints and tips for supported games. PlayStation Plus players get exclusive in-game content, discounts and Share Play, which lets you play couch multiplayer games online. That’s about it without spending more money on game vouchers or classic controllers. Features start to dry up for Nintendo Switch Online, with in-game bonuses for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Super Smash Bros. Similarly, all game subscriptions include online cloud saves, though Xbox console users don’t technically need Xbox Game Pass to take advantage of this feature. Xbox Game Pass comes with online multiplayer, but Xbox Live Gold is available for $10.95 a month: yup, the same price as Xbox Game Pass. For PlayStation and Nintendo, you need either PlayStation Plus Essential or Nintendo Switch Online, respectively, at the very least to access online multiplayer on those systems. The main baked-in extra for all three subscription services is online multiplayer.
Still, Xbox Game Pass takes the top spot for this category. Admittedly, PlayStation Plus puts up a fight if you’re willing to pay for Extra or Deluxe, with more than 50 PlayStation 5 games available to download. That’s one of the biggest differentiating perks of Xbox Game Pass: any new first-party Xbox game appears day one on the game subscription service. Xbox Game Pass had just shy of 100 new-gen games at the time of writing, mostly comprising first-party games published by Xbox Game Studios. PlayStation Plus Essential has two monthly downloadable games, but they aren’t necessarily PlayStation 5 games.
Nintendo doesn’t offer any new-gen games as part of either of its Nintendo Switch Online packages, unless you count Tetris 99 and Pac-Man 99.
If the value proposition is for people to pay around the cost of a game for a year’s subscription, then it makes sense to include new-gen games. After all, game subscription services need games to justify the price of admission over buying standalone games.
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