An accelerating consumer electronics sector and the mass penetration of broadband internet have led us into a new era of chaotic innovation and fraught business model evolution. But what that actually means is changing – not just in terms of hardware, but in the way games are made and played. In this way, games like Destiny and The Division have mutated into services – and although some gamers despair at the new era of endless DLC, season passes and add-ons, it is working. As an industry, I want to make sure both narrative-driven single-player games and service-based games have the opportunity to succeed. Shannon Loftis and I are thinking a lot about, well, could we put story-based games into the Xbox Game Pass business model because you have a subscription going?

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 11:34 UTC