Cord-Cutting Hits Video Games (axios.com)

Video games are the next entertainment industry undergoing a major disruption, all the way down to the consoles and controllers. From a report: Details: "In the past, you plunked down $60 at GameStop for a copy of Grand Theft Auto or Madden NFL and played it out -- after which you could trade it in or let it gather dust," the AP reports. "Now, you'll increasingly have the choice of subscribing to games, playing for free or possibly just streaming them over the internet to your phone or TV."

New subscription streaming services represent a massive shift from gaming into the cloud, which will make it easier to access games on any device, including mobile. [...] Gamers wouldn't necessarily have to buy individual games anymore -- they could buy them as part of a larger and potentially cheaper package -- and it means that they wouldn't be limited to expensive hardware devices that only work for certain games.

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Final solution to secondary game markets

[nehumanuscrede]

This is basically the final nail in the coffin for places like Game-Stop.
Under a subscription service, once you're done playing, there isn't any way to trade it in.

Steam, Origin, et. al. have pretty much killed the PC versions of the secondary market already.

Jokes on them though, I never buy anything on Steam unless it's = $20. Wait a year and get
the fully patched, bug-free, game-of-the-year edition. I let everyone else pay full price to be the
beta testers :D

The idea of a streaming service is laughable. US network infrastructure won't handle it, and data
caps will blow it out of the water before it even leaves the harbor. Unless, of course, we get the
same bullshit we see with streaming video. Stream with $service_provider and it won't count against
your data plan ! :|

Wtf is that headline?

[reanjr]

Isn't that the opposite of cord cutting? I suppose you can now go "corded" (subscription) then subsequently cut the cord. How does this shit pass editors?