I'm debating why people shouldn't be jerking off digital as some savior concept when all it will result in is higher pricing and loss of rights to the consumer, the very thing MS tried to choke slam us with before the Xbox One launched. The path of games as a service is not a good one as long as we the consumer have no rights. Gamepass is a cool supplement service but in order for it to be THE way the cost would have to drastically increase. Also, just like how people talked about how Netflix would save us all tons of money, we now see that many new sub services are forming, charging, and locking exclusive content behind THEIR streaming service, to the point that getting all the content you want will eventually cost us more than it did just having cable. Imagine a world where Gamepass was THE future, Nintendopass, Sonypass, EApass, Activisionpass, but now with the cost of launching their day 1 software on it rather than being old games they shove on it down the line.
It's a confusing subject, when people say something is going to become the standard, they have to realize that standard will come with competition. I don't want to have 30 companies fighting for me to pay a monthly sub to access their content.