Sony have experimented with this with PlayStation Now before Microsoft took the next logical step with Xbox Game Pass, which is currently in the process of being properly rolled out.īut which offers better value to the consumer: the streaming library of PS Now or the downloads offered by Game Pass?
Subscription services similar to those offered by the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime may be the future of games, allowing gamers to pay a flat fee each month to pick up some new titles to play around in. Places like the UK’s GAME and the US’s Gamestop are in trouble, and it’s all because the industry is shifting in a new direction, a direction that Steam started and Sony and Microsoft seem to be hellbent on taking further. These days, most gamers tend to either trade online or buy digitally, a market which is growing more and more by the day.
Long gone are the days when you would have to hunt around in your (probably smelly) local games shop for a bargain and hope that they gave you enough trade-in money to get something else. Buying video games is not the same as it used to be.
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