The Morning After: The new gaming-subscription normal

PlayStation’s game-streaming scheme, at its top tier, is now competing directly with Xbox Game Pass, the service that proved the concept by earning 25 million-plus subscribers over the past five years. It’s now been over a month since PlayStation Plus Premium went live, offering similar cloud gaming services to Microsoft's console.EngadgetHowever, there are some major differences in strategy, however. Sony doesn’t plan on adding big PlayStation-exclusive games like Forspoken or God of War Ragnarök to Plus on day one, meaning subscribers will have to buy these titles separately, at least at launch. On the Xbox side of things, Game Pass Ultimate includes big first-party games like Halo Infinite on release day. But as Engadget’s Jessica Conditt put it, this isn’t about one service being better than the others, but about adjusting to the new normal for video games.For your monthly subscription dues, do you value Game Pass Ultimate over Netflix?— Mat SmithThe biggest stories you might have missedEngadget Podcast: Digging into Samsung's foldables and wearablesHitting the Books: What goes on at a summer camp for YouTube Gaming kidfluencers‘Ring Nation’ is what happens when ‘America's Funniest Home Videos’ meets ‘Black Mirror’Mercedes-EQ's Stoffel Vandoorne wins Formula E world championshipLatest Humble Bundle includes most of the Resident Evil back catalog Recommended Reading: Imogen Heap's far-reaching influence on musicGenshin Impact’s next major update arrives on August... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2013-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Stuff | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Stuff | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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