Brave Yes, Stadio pro is more akin to PS+ and PSNow, although right ow PSNow has library a hundred times what Studio will have at launch. I also agree that Gamepass is actually (IMO) the best model for this kind of thing, and given the general assumption is MS are already working on adding streaming to the gamepads system, that will get VERY interesting…
However I do think the reticence to game streaming is more than just ’people don’t like change’. I do think there’s an ownership/possession aspect to it. The bare fact is, ‘owning’ films & TV shows is actually culturally quite new. They came along with the wide adoption of the VCR in, what, the 80’s? Before that, if you wanted to watch a film, you went to the cinema, paid your money and got to see it. Once. if you wanted to watch a TV show, you watched it when it was on then it was gone, unless it got repeated often years later. The idea that what I’m going to call ‘passive media’ was something you consume but didn’t own was established for the best part of a century before the ‘own to consume’ way appeared. Obviously VCR/DVD etc has changed that but the reality as before was already established.
The only parallel I can think of in the gaming market is arcade games, and I’m not sure the idea is quite the same. And in any case, how many arcades do you go in these days? In general, we’ve grown up either with PC or consoles and we’ve always owned the games we played. Mostly as actual physical objects. OK , some people rented games, but I think that was a niche thing.
So I think that the leap from owning to streaming in games is psychologically much higher than for TV/Cinema, because we were already used to consuming those thing ephemerally the way we never have with games. I’m sure some people are more willing to make that leap than others and maybe most will eventually, but I think it’s a more nuanced thing than “It’s to how it was in my day!”
