Besides the lack of gameplay demos and Banjo-Kazooie, perhaps the biggest story of E3 2019 has been Microsofts excellent Game Pass subscription. The platform holder pushed the package hard as it has done for a couple of years now with the vast majority of games on its stage scheduled to debut as part of the service. This means that anyone with an active membership will be able to play a large part of the Xbox Ones slate at no extra cost including blockbusters like Gears 5 and Bleeding Edge.
The thing is, its also one that would be fairly straightforward to copy, should Sony want to do it. As it stands, Game Pass is simply a secondary subscription on the Xbox One which runs concurrently with Xbox Live Gold. Obviously at E3 2019 its expanded to the PC as well, but if we just focus on the Xbox One edition, theres nothing particularly complicated about what Microsofts put together: its a service that grants game licenses to users whove paid to subscribe. In pure technol…
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