It’s all for game pass. They want to lock people into their favourite games with a subscription, that’s where the money is for Xbox at the moment, all these buyouts are for securing their service as ‘the one to want’ before others clamber into the space. So I suspect things at ABK will continue as they have been doing for the most part, but with the games on game pass and maybe some more Xbox ports.
Yup, a future of games as a service means gaming becomes more expensive. It only starts out cheap to get people using it, they would never do it if the long term plan wasn’t to raise the prices to make it more profitable than selling digital copies.
The interface gets a little better and that’s it basically? (Alternatively: They try to spin a social medium around it and fail somewhat and succeed somewhat?)
It’s all for game pass. They want to lock people into their favourite games with a subscription, that’s where the money is for Xbox at the moment, all these buyouts are for securing their service as ‘the one to want’ before others clamber into the space. So I suspect things at ABK will continue as they have been doing for the most part, but with the games on game pass and maybe some more Xbox ports.
Yup, a future of games as a service means gaming becomes more expensive. It only starts out cheap to get people using it, they would never do it if the long term plan wasn’t to raise the prices to make it more profitable than selling digital copies.
If you want to know how Games Streaming will look like in 10 years, compare today’s YouTube to how it was 10 years ago.
The interface gets a little better and that’s it basically? (Alternatively: They try to spin a social medium around it and fail somewhat and succeed somewhat?)
Okay, Youtube was maybe a bad example. They aren’t that far with the enshittification yet, and just started increasing the amounts of ads…
Things I do expect: