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 ...

Not every developer sees Game Pass in the same light, though, since not every Game Pass deal is built the same. Citizen ...

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

Ex-PlayStation head Shawn Layden doesn't think Game Pass is good for developers, likening working under the model to being a ...

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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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Shawn Layden, a former Sony Chairman, attempts to explain the problems with the contrast between an era of games long past ...