EA’s Origin Access Premium and Microsoft’s Game Pass finally get subscriptions right
https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2018/06/11/eas-origin-access-premium-and-microsofts-game-pass-finally-get-subscriptions-right/
Two titans of gaming, EA and Microsoft, revealed updates to their respective subscription services that should appeal to hardcore gamers. Both companies committed to releasing their major first-party titles – the big games like Halo and Madden – on their subscription services at the same time as the worldwide launch.
Microsoft yesterday announced that every first-party Xbox One game its publishing arm puts out will launch on its Xbox Game Pass service. It also announced the acquisition of five new studios, an upcoming cloud streaming service, and a machine learning update that allows games to download twice as fast from Game Pass — the gist of its E3 presence seemed to be that the Xbox team believes streaming is the future.