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Yeah xbox game pass for pc is great Outer Worlds for a starting subscription of one dollar!

Playstation Vue was their TV service (not to be confused with Playstation Now - their game streaming service which is comparable to Xbox Game Pass).

Their TV service if I can recall started at $40/mo for their basic subscription. Their game streaming service was $20/mo but was dropped to $10/mo earlier this month. To compare Xbox Game Pass is currently $10/mo. The difference is (correct me if I'm wrong) PS Now _streamed_ the games whereas Xbox downloads them. PS Now seemed to focus more on older titles where Xbox Game Pass is heavily indie games with a few newer AAA releases mixed in.

Xbox certainly provides a lot of value for the $1.00 entry into the Game Pass with their current sale (provides games for both Xbox and PC).

PSNow now does both — it’ll stream PS3 games (since emulating that chip is a tall order; if we’re lucky, the PS5 or PS6 will be capable of doing so), but there’s a subset of PS4 games that can be downloaded and played on-console.

Interesting. Thanks for clearing that up. I used to be subscribed and did play a number of games but ended up cancelling my PS Now subscription. Now my Playstation is saying I need to fix the OS with a flash drive which I've been meaning to do but life is busy.

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