Microsoft

lol wait, What?....

I'm actually wondering if this is legal or not, really.

This ain't gonna work for me. Hell, I already get too much latency when streaming wirelessly to my router which is wired to my computer. True, it's very cool that I can do so at all, but I play very few games that are a type of game where higher latency isn't uncomfortable or annoying. That's just the reality of it, for me. Streaming is good for story games (probably without too many QTEs), turn-based games, or puzzle games. Anything that's direct control and precision does not feel good with higher latency, and is a major issue especially depending on what you're playing.

If this takes over the industry, I hope it doesn't do so to much, where it becomes the only way to play a large portion of things.  Perhaps it could grab the crowd that plays those games that work, but 1, games like that which require better hardware are pretty minority right?  are these people even going to want to pay a subscription?  Then again, I was going to say episodic story games.  Life is Strange?  and oh but whoops, Telltale is gone now.

If they were to do this the strongest way they could, and if Telltale still existed, or a replacement did... What if they bundled a service like this with episodic story games with, say PS Vue, a TV service?

I'd say that's the best they could do, without manipulating potential new users into a worse general product/service.  But now we know that people play Fortnite on their phones, so it's another notch or hole deeper into the ridiculousness of what people will buy, or at least play (well it is free, so...).

Whether, it's the same pass or a separate subscription from having it on XBOX, I'm not really sure.  I'm going to think/hope it's 1 for both/all, with their "Play Anywhere" push.

It's $120/yr for the XBOX Game Pass, I believe.  Or actually $10/mo.  They aren't revealing on the purchase site whether they let you buy and perhaps get a discount on more months/a year.  Which is odd and annoying.

As much as I hate Apple, the iPad mini which apparently was a failure (?) came a tad too early (meaning before the Switch and before Fortnite/PUBG).  Now it's making sense.

But for Microsoft, besides the controller hardware sales, this is for their streaming service.