Games with Gold vs. PlayStation Plus: June 2014

GamerFitnation compares the offerings from Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus this month.

Both Xbox and PlayStation stepped up their game in June. Is the addition of Xbox One games to Games with Gold enough for Xbox to compete with PlayStation Plus' free games?

[GarrusVakarian]

This is the first time ive enjoyed the Xbox offerings more than the PS offerings. Max: Curse of Brotherhood was awesome. Very clever gameplay mechanics and level design. Not a fan of Halo: Spartan Assault, but Max alone made this month better for the X1 for me.

[brotherlymoses]

Yeah, wasn't a big fan of halo spartan assault, but max is really fun.

[No_Limit]

Lukas, I am still getting that "failed to load" message for both Spartan Assault and Max. How did you manage to resolve your download?

[GarrusVakarian]

It was stuck at 99%, then i just turned on my X1 on the day of the update, when the update finished they were both at a 100%, ready to play.

Not sure what's up with yours, sorry dude. Did you try deleting and re-installing them?

What Chimichanga said also, go into your settings and manually update, that's if you haven't received the update automatically already.....

[Chimichanga]

Make sure your console has the latest system update.

[GamingSinceThe80s]

It's great to know we get 4 games free every month now between PS4 and XB1 now.This is why everybody should want both MS and Sony to do good.Because we all win while these giant's fight it out for our money.Competition>fanboy hate.

[GarrusVakarian]

Well said.

[RiPPn]

Max is great, but wow is Spartan Assault bad, especially those microtransactions. smh Trine 2 and Pixeljunk Shooter are also superb so I still think Sony wins the month 2 - 1 on current gen. But if this level of quality keeps up on both then having both subs will be worth the price of admission imo.

[GarrusVakarian]

I have yet to download Trine 2, i was too busy focusing on Max, but now that i have finished Max, i'll move onto Trine 2.

[BLACKBIBLE]

I'm Loving the line up!

[KittieOnALeash]

I have to give it to Gold for this month. I've always wanted to try out Dark Souls and even though I already have Super Street Fighter IV, I'm excited to play with some new friends. All of the other games are going to be pretty awesome as well. :)

[Software_Lover]

For those of you who have an xbox 360 and xbox live but do not have an XBone yet.......

You can go to xbox.com and purchase these items now (for free) under the games with gold tab so that when you get an XBone they will be available to download for free. As long as you keep your Xbox live subscription. Just letting you know in case you didn't already

[MasterCornholio]

Wow it works the same way as PS+ thats great to know.

:)

P.S I mean it as a good thing.

[Software_Lover]

Didn't take it as a bad thing. I knew about ps plus but I just got an Xbone and tried it out before I had one when the games first released last week. I got the xbone going and downloaded the games instantly.

I figured they (Microsoft) could use some good news.

[shinrock]

Yep, it's just to bad we can no longer keep the games.if ur sub runs out you can't access it. Knida miss the old way. I'll take give over loan any day.

[PS4isTHEkneesOFbees]

Good point, thanks.

[Codey47]

All hail MicroSony for actually delivering a game worthy of competing with Plus' offerings. As opposed to 50p bargain bin games.

[AceBlazer13]

Enjoying NBA 2k14 on the ps3 so far even though a few players and teams are unbalanced *cough *heats *cough*.

And well everyone already knows Trine and PixelJunk is awesome. Now just to wait for Sly Cooper next week.

[truefan1]

Max alone is one of the best offerings I have seen, great game. I hope we get Crimson Dragon next month.

[GoPanthers999]

Crimson Dragon is pretty bad. Bought for my son. Your time is better spent elsewhere.

[welly300]

You guys that have payed for gold all these years and got nothin in return must feel like crap. :)

[Software_Lover]

You guys that have crapped over people paying for gold to play multiplayer then went and bought a ps4 only to realize you have to now pay for multiplayer must feel like crap?

[MoonConquistador]

Not really. I've subscribed to PS+ since its inception and have, and continue to get far more value than what the subscription costs me. Granted I have a PS3 and Vita alongside my PS4.

X box owners for long enough paid a subscription to unlock the multiplayer part of a game they already paid for.

So I've been paying for a subscription service for 4 years which has delivered more than £2000 worth of games for less than £200, and has now adopted the MS tactic of making it compulsory for multiplayer on the majority of online games. I hardly even felt it slipping in.

8 years of paying for the privilege of playing the multiplayer part of a game you paid for, to only now being offered something akin to the value you get from PS+ by MS adopting Sony's policy isn't quite the same thing. You've been getting raped for years.

The fact you argue still about who feels like crap just tells me you've became that used to taking it from them that your actually numb back there.

[LogicStomper]

@MoonConquistador

"8 years of paying for the privilege of playing the multiplayer part of a game you paid for, to only now being offered something akin to the value you get from PS+ by MS adopting Sony's policy isn't quite the same thing. You've been getting raped for years. "

So that means that the PS users who only wanted the online multiplayer (not PS+) are hereby getting raped from now until the end of this system? Think about it. On PS3, online multiplayer was free. Now they're chucking it behind a paywall. This act is would you would consider 'raping the consumers'.

Not sure if you've done this sort of math but, do you remember differentials? Change in gradient? Delta ___? I'll use this idea for the following points.

Early and late PS3:

- Free multiplayer
- Pay to receive rental games

PS4:

- Pay to play online and to receive rental games.

Early Xbox 360:

- Pay to play online
- No rental/free games system

Late Xbox 360:

- Pay to play online and receive games you keep.

Xbox One:

- Pay to play online and receive rental games

So now let's look at this change in service. Xbox Live went from bad (no free games) to good (free games that you keep) to slightly worse than good (rental). Paying to play online has stayed the same. Overall this gradient is positive as the service has gotten better.

Now... What has PS4 done? Well the PS3 stages had little to no change, it was good. Free multiplayer, and pay to receive the rental games. When they transitioned into PS4 though, what changed? They put multiplayer behind a paywall and that was that. So what's the gradient of this looking like? Yeah, downhill.

[TheFallenAngel]

I downloaded pixeljunk shooter. Amazing game! I don't know why people complains for free stuff. Pixeljunk shooter is amazing.

[ShiftyEffect7]

Ummm, NBA 2k14 is free for PS+...

[TheEternalGamer]

PS Plus Wins Again. Keep Trying Microsoft. OH wait you can't compete because PS Plus been doing this for YEARSSSSSS!!!!!

[ghostface9]

Is this a joke the 360 version and x1 offerings were both way better than their counterparts on the ps3 and ps4 side

[welly300]

We can still play ps3 vita online for free but why when plus is such great value wld be crazy not to get it.

[isarai]

People like to hold something over the others in their typical fanboy fashion, and in this case it's the whole PS+ free games vs Gold free games. I only own a playstation but even i know it's pretty fucking stupid to try and talk shit. Does no one remember how PS+ was when it launched? inFamous 1, Uncharted, and a bunch of other games EVERYONE has already payed. Then slowly it got better and the games got more recent, now we're getting games at launch for free. Gold is the same, started with old titles EVERYONE has played and it's slowly getting better.

I am glad MS is trying this even if to compete with sony as it's nothing but win for gamers and helps make the whole industry feel a bit less heartless and profit centric.

[Redinfamy]

I agree, competition I'd always healthy. Keeps companies on their toes and active to show the other up. I hope MS steps it up a bit though, they have great third party relationships and in my opinion is playing it too safe like I wrote. Well time will tell.