A former PlayStation boss criticizes Microsoft's popular Xbox Game Pass subscription service and similar business models in a ...

Layden has being laying into Game Pass for years, repeatedly criticizing the subscription model. Noting ballooning development costs and questioning whether console exclusives are a good thing in the ...

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden shares more disapproving opinions on Xbox Game Pass, saying that the subscription ...

Shawn Layden, former chairman of PlayStation Worldwide Studios, has blasted gaming subscription services such as Xbox Game ...

"They're not creating value, putting it in the marketplace, hoping it explodes, and profit sharing, and overages, and all ...

The price of video games remains one of the most contentious issues in the industry. Companies want to push big releases up ...

Former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden, took aim at gaming subscriptions services. In an interview with ...

Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden in an interview with GamesIndustry says the price of video games should have [...] ...

Former Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden thinks subscription services like Xbox Game Pass are a "danger" to the ...

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The Xbox Game Pass service is constantly getting debated, and now, Shawn Layden has made his thoughts known on the service.

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