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This is only a fatal flaw to you and me.

If Sony and MSFT decide to go down this route and it's the only way to play blockbuster games, it'll happen whether we like it or not because the market cares far more about playing the latest game than it does maintaining control over its own destiny so to speak. Very few consumers will eschew the Latest Thing and just happily play older games on their own PC (or console) to make a point to the publishers.

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> If Sony and MSFT decide to go down this route and it's the only way to play blockbuster games, it'll happen whether we like it or not because the market cares far more about playing the latest game than it does maintaining control over its own destiny so to speak.

Maybe, or maybe it'll live a giant gap waiting to be filled in by a new competitor in the console market.

I still thing that if you burn enough people there will be pushback.

Pushback like there was to making Office 365 or Adobe subscription-only? Or pushback like there was to Google mostly killing AOSP? Or pushback like there was to ads in Netflix & friends? Or pushback like there was to <pick a subscription service> price hikes?

You'll note that all those things are still there, and their competitors are either not there or not significantly bolstered by people disgruntled by those changes.

Well I am sure the subscription shenanigans helped Krita and Libreoffice. Graphene OS seems to be gaining traction & Sailfish OS exists as well.

And making media subscription more expensive will just push more people to piracy, so they will just loose money due to their greed.

How do you pirate GTA:7 when your console never even gets the whole thing in its own memory? That's the point: piracy as we know it becomes largely impossible. Jailbreaking a console won't help. In fact, the publishers could open source the consoles and allow rooted consoles to play, because who cares?

The other point is cheaters. Knowing someone's running an aimbot makes it a whole lot less fun to play online.

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