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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] reka@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess the alternative is streaming? I don't think we're going to be getting another generation of subsidised hardware.

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[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

I sure hope not, I hate cloud streaming services.

Right now the only budget alternative is to wait out this ram Apocalypse, however long that may take...

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[–] reka@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago

I don't think it's a good alternative, I should have said.

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