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[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

What do you expect? Few will be able to afford to play their whizbang-5000 games. We already saw it play out with VR.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

You might be right. But charging them $15 a month to stream their whizbang-5000 games is still an option. Especially for Microsoft and Sony. (And Amazon wants in on that too.)