This is not news, this is Phil giving us the spin in their loss leader model for game pass.
Either that or a price rise will come later down the line once they believe they've cornered the market enough and have people hooked.
Just look at Netflix the base price doubled in a few years, they offer two more tiers...
why did no one say anything when SONY introduced PSnow? Because it’s from Sony so it’s ok? Or w
I can't recall Sony pushing that hard.
In the long run, how would games on such a service be so different tan phone games in their approach to extra monetization?
How much revenue will developers really get from releasing their games on this? If you're a parent this is akin to rental back then, a couple of dollars a month and your kid has access to more games.
But at the same time it ties you harder to their ecosystem, on PC at least.
Obviously, if I want to play gears in the short term I would spend $1 and play a bit and cancel... Because the service costs around the same as what I plan to spend on games in the next 12 months or so (not much time for gaming, no time to waste on shovel ware, because of the kids).
why did no one say anything when SONY introduced PSnow? Because it’s from Sony so it’s ok? Or w
How about we can't have a thread without some bot telling us how great it is, acting as if MS invented the idea of such a service (they have existed for about as long as high speed internet on PC).
And many of us just want to cure our own libraries for ourselves and have some level of ownership one either the service doesn't exist (let's say you want to play some old xbox game that was made by some publisher who doesn't do business with Microsoft anymore. It will force me to register for the other service, and it's not long that you spend 100$ a month on such services to access all games (assuming everyone moves to that kind of service).