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they're not the big one anymore and then uh if they ever were and then sony's like yeah ps6 no no physical media and the internet shit itself yep and so that's now been like a huge debate online and i just saw something the other day i meant to go back and watch the video on it um I saw something where somewhere, somebody in New York is trying to push through legislation that says, if you buy a game, you own the game.

Like, if you buy it on Steam, PlayStation Network Store, the Xbox Store, Switch Digital, wherever, Epic, wherever you buy it digitally, you own it.

Not this whole...

Oh, we lost the licensing for this game, so it's just no longer available.

So the Hellraiser game is a good game.

Do you ever play, do you ever, like, go on, like, the Xbox Store, the Xbox 360 Store, and And there's, like, a really popular game.

And, like, IGN's even like, hey, this game's pretty cool for $10.

That's basically what the Hellraiser game is.

And it's all, you can point the finger, admittedly so, at just AI, right? And it's not just the cost thing.

AI is now, AI made games, right? have penetrated storefronts on Steam, on Nintendo eShop, on the PlayStation Store, and I'm sure on the Xbox Store as well.

And... small developers, right? And you hear these stories where small developers put out a game, maybe it gained some traction, maybe like an influencer or something played it and now it's gotten popular.

Well, these AI, quote unquote, development studios will just basically take that code, make their own version of it, and then post it with a very similar name on Steam, for example.

Yeah, no, it's games that you already own.

Yeah, you can purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games that you own on supported devices.

That is available right now to Xbox Insiders.

I think coming soon to everyone in the world pretty soon.

Gotcha.

The company said non-subscribers would soon be able to purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox Store and stream eligible games they own on supported devices.

Today, Microsoft rolled out... those a la carte cloud playtime purchases to xbox insiders with prices that might be a bit uh galling for players who have already purchased these streamable games so the the introductory launching prices for the xbox cloud playtime purchases is as followed 10 hours for four bucks 25 hours for eight bucks 50 hours for 12 bucks Purchase playtime remains available until it's used.

Microsoft writes, so you don't have to worry about your 50-hour purchase expiring before you can use it fully.

My understanding with the classic games is there was a way for you to log in and prove that you owned it previously, or do you just buy it through that? Is that how that works? You pay $5 for a 20-year-old game because you used to play it? You

could, or some of these games might be only available in the Xbox Game Pass store.

And so this is basically like the arcade model where you don't want to buy the game, and it's only available on the Xbox Store.

You can either buy the Game Pass, but if you don't want to buy the Game Pass, you can buy 10 hours for $4 to play the game, which is crazy.

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Greg, have you been a part of any of this discourse? Did you not like the face? Not like

it isn't the right word.

I think the things they can offer is play anywhere gives them an opportunity to bring physical disc releases to PC.

if people are interested in doing that that's an avenue they can go take now it's a job offering that you know that they actually have upgraded job posting to look at that strategy um but that is an area where they could differentiate themselves from the xbox store to the the steam store steam does not generally have physical releases there are games that do it But it's really on them.

It's not really a Steam promoted physical release.

Whereas Xbox can, in fact, take their published games and make them available on PC.

Because that is a known quantity.

And then find a way to hybrid the two together.

You know, the Xbox Store and Battle.net.

I don't know.

The IGN idea Xbox showcase thingy that's been leaking

terribly on the Xbox store with a bunch of things showing up.

Yeah, we do know some of the things, right?

Yeah, they just keep posting.

Oh.

As always.

The best leakers in the biz are the PlayStation and Xbox store.

Which is funny because people are like, how come Xbox does it? As far as I know, it's the publisher has control over store pages.

And obviously there's corporate flux in amongst that stuff.

But the Xbox used to stand for more of like a rogue spirit and it, it, it was what the industry needed and they were able to push things forward like achievements, Xbox Live Marketplace, uh, Xbox Live Arcade, you know, get smaller scale games out there, change the landscape of the industry in really cool ways.

Xbox Live itself was, you know, phenomenal.

And so yeah, I, uh, I'm always fascinated by what's happening over at Xbox, even if it's [chuckles] very messy and all over the place.