Xbox has reportedly ‘shut departments dedicated to bringing games to physical retail’ - eviltoast

With Ubisoft talking about getting gamers used to not owning our games…

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is the idea with gamepass. I imagine they will sell the next console at a loss to hook people with a gamepass subscription. A future xbox could be a tiny internet connected box that just streams and handles the peripherals.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah if consoles just start streaming only I will going to PC game streaming is great and all until it doesn’t work then it’s useless.

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          10 months ago

          Except for games purchased via Steam, Epic, etc which you also do not “own”.

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            10 months ago

            you own every game you pirate and properly crack though.

            and most steam games can be easily used without steam with a steam emulator.

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            10 months ago

            That depends. Steam games do not automatically come with DRM/need Steam to launch. So long as you keep a copy of the game files around, you own those games. That’s not true for all titles of course.