I understand all of that, but netflix wasn't around in 2012 like today. Neither was spotify. These greedy fuckers see the money those companies make and want some of that. Once games pass, nintendo's terrible way of offering up old games, xbox's awful (IMO) games pass and possibility of sony doing similar next gen, I'm fucking OUT!
Well, the problem is... streaming music/video is not the same as processing a game and than streaming it i.e. it will have
worse performance and
cost more than native playing generally speaking. Furthermore, if we go to rental model... less money for the providers... which is why there is new junk on netflix. Good movies for instance are still in the theaters and that is where the real money is generated.
I wouldn't lose any sleep on it.
The reason why it hasn't worked for 10+ years and will generally never be a mass type product is simple - more costly and worse performance.
I think people compare products or segments that may seem related but really aren't... let me give you an example.
If you know what a VD is Virtual Desktop Service, so you're a business... you provide your employees with a VD with Windows... its basically you remoting into your desktop. Well, over the last 10+ years this has been slowly moving companies over to these types of services.... so they have grown in popularity to a degree. However, I have never ever heard of a home consumer have a VD service.... why? it costs more and its a subscription... nobody needs to hire company X to mange their PC.
For a business, it can make sense as you can eliminate headcount, etc. , for a consumer it makes no sense.... yet, its basically the same product for both.