Gaming hardware in the 2020s?

[CaptainExplosion2]

bunchanumbers said:

CaptainExplosion2 said:

That's a terrible vision for the future. What would happen to consumers when the services were discontinued?

They will buy it and like it. History has shown that people will gladly give up ownership for convenience. We barely buy CDs anymore. We have iTunes instead. Same wiith movies. We have Netflix now. Games is the next natural step. Eventually it will get to the point where we don't even remember what physical ownership is in a decade. Access will be the new ownership.

But what about all the money companies have already made from hardware development? How would they possibly recoupe that?