9 Ways The Xbox One Is Secretly Better Than The PS4
7. Monthly Subscription Games You Actually Want To Play
Save for Sony pulling their finger out and offering the mighty Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as an October freebie, can you remember the last time you got a free monthly game you actually wanted to play?
The likes of Until Dawn, Just Cause 3 and Child of Light are all fantastic, but anything that jogs your memory as a notable release you missed out on are very few and far between. Most of the time it's a side-scrolling platformer or run n' gunner, and while I'm not knocking the quality of those titles, if you're offering a premium service worth $60 a year, you can do much better when it comes to representing that money each month.
Microsoft understand the anticipation and value of a randomly selected batch of games to reward their most loyal customers, and with the benefit of having cracked 360 backwards compatibility, means you've got ace old-school titles like Medal of Honor Airborne, Borderlands 2 and Darksiders, right next to things like Sunset Overdrive, Outlast and Oxenfree.
Staggered across the month so they release in batches of two, it's a much healthier representation of what games are available on the system, and doesn't leave you with scores of forgettable "Tried it, didn't like" fare like on PS4.