“Not every company has the infrastructure to pull off streaming.“

Then they’ll likely just pull their games from the other streaming services. Just like a stated above.

"You need to pay per hour. and sometimes there are que's apparently."

Not true. The free tier has an hour long session length. There is no "pay per hour". Paid members obviously get priority over free. That's where the que could possibly come in, but it isn't a certainty there will be a wait at all.

What's the convenience? Losing them all of you get banned? Paying more than physical?

@annoyedgamer.

So we are going to use ridiculous what if's now? I have had digital accounts for years, Playstation, Xbox, Steam, and not once have I been banned or even warned for anything.

Also, I have never paid more for a digital game compared to physical.

With digital, I can just browse through the online stores and buy any game I like. I don't have to worry about a game being in stock, I get my game instantly, I don't need to wait for it to arrive in the post, I don't need to go a store and buy it, it doesn't take up space in my house, I don't have to worry about damage, the sales are better.

I'm sure people will come back and say "what if you eventually lose access to your games when the severs shut down" and it was something I used to worry about to, but not anymore. First off, digital gaming has been growing more and more for about 15 years now, and not once has it shown signs of slowing down. The likes of Playstation, Xbox and Steam are massive powerhouses at this point and I don't see it ever being a problem in my lifetime, so I don't really care. I care even less with PC gaming, because at least if this was to happen with pc gaming, I can always just download a game from somewhere on the internet any time I like. I have stopped worrying about what may or may not happen 20 or 30 years from now.

You can still keep buying physical games all you like, it's a good option to have for those that want it, but it's selfish to just want something to die just because you're worried about a future that probably won't even be an issue in your lifetime.

It's about convenience? Ok, you chose convenience over control. Your choice.

Also have to disagree. Went all digital also and will never look back.

No, I'm not "get outta here" with that. There has been evidence that all they are doing with digital and streaming is taking away your control over your games and gaming. EA just raised the prices of their digital games all over the world because they can. If there is no second hand market to keep the prices down, game prices will always be high. Now there are sales yes, but that is because there is a physical second hand market and they are forced to do digital sales to stay competitive and even give you better prices to entice you to buy digital instead. Also games can get removed and changed any time do to license agreements expireing or an artist suing the company for more money, etc. Games have already been removed from digital stores for various reasons that you can't buy anymore. Game prices have already been hiked for old games because they can do it. Ubisoft even kicked players off from AC Odyssey becaue they did not play the game the way Ubisoft intended it to be played. That is but a taste of the all digital/streaming future. We are not even there and already see the signs of how bad it will be if we go 100% digital. This is where you are marching towards cheerfully.

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse