Well that doesn't have much to do with physical or digital, but it is such an odd thing, didn't heard it before, cool.

PSN yes I do remember the 1 month or so blackout.

And yes a lot of Switch games aren't full games on media, but in PS4 I think only 1 or 2 games I bought was like that.

But I'll agree with you that even on physical media we have been going a road of less ownership and that is regretable.

I played 20 games on GP in 2019 alone. Played it, beat it, uninstalled, moved on to the next. I like to think I very much saved money playing 20 games for $15 a month. Games included day 1 Gears 5 and Outer Worlds (both $60 value at the time). 

Im sorry but this is a bad argument. Fear mongering and “what if” witch-hunts at its worst. 

I’m like 90% sure your save data is in tact. You just lose the game. You can buy at a 10% discount via GP if you fear it going away before you are done with it. Or wait for a mega sale. GP users can and still buy games. I myself bought Resident Evil 2 not long ago. GP doesn’t have everything. 

Well, first, you don't have to buy a console to get Gamepass, as it's available for PC. Secondly, as you said, if I stop the service I still have a console. And I have already enjoyed the benefit of gamepass for the time I chose to use it. At this point I can sell the machine, or I can buy the games I really enjoyed, which will likely by this point have dropped substantially in price.

Again, I'm fully aware going in that I don't have access to the game forever. I'm also aware the price may rise (although if they jumped it too suddenly I imagine they'd risk a class action suit). Based on my purchasing and playing habits though, (I mostly play Nintendo games and a buy like 3-4 third party titles a year, pretty much all of which have come to Gamepass), this is a far better deal for me. If after 2-3 years I'm no longer using the service, I'll probably still be coming out ahead compared to what I would have spent if I'd had bought all the games I played individually. 

Don't know all the games you played and how they would have costed if you waited for them to be cheaper. But let's say 15 per month on a year would equate 4 full games, you played 5x more so unless you waited a very long time (15*12/20 = 9 bucks per game) and perhaps some of those games you wouldn't have bought because they weren't good, it is very hard to say didn't save a lot of money or enjoyed a lot of your time.

Sure on the same note I have purchased hundred of physical, got 300 digital (mostly gifts from plus) and perhaps that costed me a little over double what you are paying per month and all those games are either mine forever (the ones I care) or as long as I keep or whenever I renew my sub.

Now doing maths, let's say the average attach ratio of games on Xbox is 12 games per HW bought over 6 years of ownership, that is 60*12 = 720 USD at most (because there is some bought on sales), at the same time person paying 15 bucks per month over same period would be 15*72 =1080 USD (sure there will be some promotions), so yes at 15 per month math kinda balances out and gives MS some leverage (sure we also would have to excludes people that pay one month sub and play that game or 2 or 3 in the month and then quit, which could likely mean for the month that game release instead of getting 60 they got 15 for that game, but for the over 1 year game for third parties they would hardly be losing money, they get some bucks for the game on the platform that they aren't getting from stores, get some publicity that may extend legs for that game, etc). So if MS releases about 4 games per year on the service it basically equals the expenditure buying and subs if someone keeps their sub the whole year.

All in all, it certainly can be made a model where it is profitable to keep GP, it doesn't jeopardize other publishers and all.

But you can't deny that there is also the potential for MS to focus on more episodic games (let's say put a part of the game each month for some months or like a year), for eternal games that get those weekly or monthly update (like smartphone games, and some are very good and fun), F2P models on some other games and MP heavy where the people keep playing the same game for a long period? That is basically the reason I don't want Sony to follow same route since I like contained SP games. Also they were able make 3 games that sell 10M almost every year this gen so that would basically be similar revenue to MS having the subs without having to send part of that money to anyone else. But yep Sony could put those games after 1 or 2 years on PSNow and improve that service to generate more recurrent revenue together with PS+. We will see if Sony will respond when GP grows and bring more profit. Denying the model can be profitable and have quality is wrong imho though.

... like... what? For argument's sake, we'll call this a rental program. Why would that mean you can't rent a long game? I used Gamefly for a while, and I played a mix of long games and short games. I didn't feel the need to limit myself to short games, because it was cheap enough, and I didn't feel any compulsion to focus on shorter games to get more bang for my buck, cause that would be kind of weird. With Gamepass, since you don't have to return a game before you can get a new one, there's even less incentive to avoid lengthy games. As for variety, there's plenty of variety on Gamepass. Look at the list yourself.

This kind of seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel. Also, the use of M$ is frowned upon. A normal S will be fine.

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It is NOT a rental service like GameFly (or in Germany verleihshop.de) where you get access for a game only for a week and after that you get a week access for the next game.

It is a subcription service where you get access to ALL games in the subscription. Many games in Gamepass don't leave the library (or at least haven't in the first three years) and the games that have left the subscription stayed there at least for six months (as far as I know). Correct me, if you know about GamePass games which left earlier than six months after entering the subscription.

6 months - 3 years are more than enough to play through the longest games.

And lack of variety? Have you even looked through the current GamePass library for a moment?

It is rare...but it's about to get a lot more common. I read a story saying that ninth gen games are going to be so big that you're going to have to download a significant portion no matter what. The discs just can't hold them all. It might be speculation but I can definitely see it being true.

2019 (21): Star Wars: TFU, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic CD, Fable 3, Crackdown 3, Forza Horizon 4, Recore, Sniper Elite 4, Hellblade Senua Sacrifice, Sea of Thieves, Quantum Break, Resident Evil 5 Remastered, Resident Evil: Revelations, Resident Evil 4, Metro 2033, Gears 5, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Stellaris, The Outer Worlds, Metro Last Light, Halo Reach (MCC) 

2020 (14):  Wolfenstein 2, Rage 2, Worms WMD, Metro Exodus, Bleeding Edge, Ninja Gaiden 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, Streets of Rage 4, LOTR: Shadow of War, Fractured Minds, Banjo Kazooie, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Alan Wake, Minecraft Dungeons

Currently playing: Red Dead Redemption 2, Witcher 3 

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Bolded the bigger games I played. Does this look like variety to you? Enough games big and small? Cmon if you gonna talk down a service like this at least do some homework on the subject. 

As a married homeowner it’s great to have bang for your buck when your money is put to other things. If I were to play these multiplats on PlayStation id either A. Be spending hundreds more or B. Not play them at all to save money. As a teenager I would have lost my shit if I could play this much for so little. This is imo 100% a system seller in itself from a purely financial point of view.

Not bad for currently spending $285 (GPU) since Jan 2019 - Present. Roughly $8 per game.