haxxiy said:
I wish I were as optimistic, but multiple formats have come and gone, and their media along with it. I don't see a reason that would be different now, even if there's no leap in quality. Hell, people willingly gave up higher quality Blu-rays for bad Netflix encoding. In the end, even digital libraries will be gone (as a mainstream thing, at least). It'll be all subscription-based, because that's what makes more money and gives companies more control. Invalidating a game key or a license has a bad ring to it, despite it being legal, but removing something from streaming is just a part of life. |
Nah, I don't believe it. They simply can't make games like the way Netflix makes content, the reason Xbox needed to release on PS5. Sadya is not seeing the return. People keep saying it'll all be streaming too but unless we get flawless Internet infrastructure globally, make weather a non issue sort signal and have this all for an affordable price in the biggest markets where people are still dealing with 3g and data caps...nah. decades off. This might be the last physical gen (I still doubt it after the PS5 pro backlash and rush for disc drives) but it's def not even the penultimate last gen for choosing your games games singularly and buying them... or renting, leasing whatever it is we do to pay for them to be in our libraries.
