You have it Backwards, Playstation NOW leads above Xbox GamePass

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gamingsoul said:
I'm very concerned about having an all gaming streaming future, it could sink the quality of games in general, look what happened to movies and music, if people can have hundreds of new games for 20 bucks per month why should game companies spends millions of dollars developing games or even worse they would flood games with paid dlc to increase the profit(not that they don't do it now but imagine how worse it could get, almost like phone games).
Microsoft is doing that right now because they are in the last place so they are just giving away their games to get people's attention, I hope Sony and Nintendo don't follow that trend and keep selling their exclusives at full price, I think we gamers should be concerned with this new trend it could really damage hard this industry, remember people make games because they want to earn money and games like Zelda and uncharted cost millions of dollars to make.

I have the same general fears.

At first everyone thought the Phone App market was going to be the end of traditional gaming. The potential for profit is much higher on phones. Yet look at it now. I was reading some article that says most Apps are profitless flops. Their cost to produce is minor so it is not a big deal but it is a market completely over saturated. Big publishers steal all the advert space from the smaller devs that the system was built upon. The market is also widely unpredictable as it isn't necessarily based on quality. Many apps set fire to consumers based un unpredictable meme culture. Few apps on phone can be successful if they charge up front. A race to the bottom has made all apps standardly free with in app purchases. This works for certain app types.....but all games have some sort of gambling function to it.

Or take PC gaming, mostly STEAM.  Some pulled data (I will see if I can find it) said that majority of released games on it don't make much back, like less than $1k.  It has become a fevered rat race to the bottom. You can't sell games at full price up there because consumers have become far too accustomed to the fire sales. Big Publishers get so much of the prime ad space there too.

Netflix, the king of streaming services has it's own slew of problems. It's industry shake ups that once put it on top now threaten it's life. The app has lost a tremendous amount of content over the last 4 years. It barely has licensed content anymore. Big companies were no longer satisfied with whatever profit margin they got from Netflix, and they demand more with their own App subscriptions. The number that have popped up in the last few years is just dizzying. Netflix thrives on it's own exclusive content. Yet those are under fire while different publishers pull their content into their own. Netflix has also seemingly been shrinking how many episodes they produce for exclusive content. They throw everything at the wall (5-10 episode seasons) and sees what sticks. Most of them don't..... Netflix also keeps increasing their price which is really becoming a problem for me.

So what has happened to games? The $60 package keeps shrinking. Most games now feel more like glorified frameworks of a game, that they later fill with content via DLC. "Games as a Service" as they call it. There is nothing wrong with these types of games existing, it just is super aggravating that every game now a days wants to be it. One of the key reasons people right now are so refreshed by Sony and Nintendo's commitment to more traditional singleplayer/standard cooperative games. If every game turns Free to Play I foresee the quality in said games going even further to shit, as Devs will put in minimal effort in individual titles as they throw everything at the wall and only work on the ones that catch massive public attention.

Ultimately.....a digital/stream only gaming market is dangerous to the quality that is already dwindling for games. It is also an issue of preservation(in a legal sense).  I fear the time when you you won't be able to reminisce about Game X that you enjoyed so much  5 years ago because it was only available via Digital/Stream and it was demonitized and/or removed for whatever reasons.