I’m pretty confident that if your only objection to game pass is this (i.e. you’re not worried about finding enough variety in games for it to be “worth it”), you’ll still spend less money by keeping a game pass sub and then just buying the game outright in case this ever does happen to you (especially since you get…

Right! It’s hard to imagine that Microsoft doesn’t know the specific departure dates for major games as they join the library. If they marked that end date—just as Sony does with marquee PS Now titles—would Game Pass be more enticing?

The thing is that you can rent or buy most of these movies on Amazon, where you can then watch them anywhere as opposed to just on your Playstation console.

I’ve rented on other services. Not everything you want is available to stream. And if you only ever plan on watching it once there is no point in buying. So why wouldn’t you rent it? $3-5 to watch a movie for a day or two is pretty reasonable.

This! Add Starz and Showtime to the list too.

Roku has more apps. At least, that’s why I use it over my consoles. Showtime, Adult Swim, and Starz come to mind first, but I’m sure there’s more. Furthermore, internal drive space is at a premium on the new consoles, so it’s nice not having to reserve precious GBs on PS5 for streaming apps.

Roku has a far better selection of streaming apps to choose from - many aren’t on PS4 or Xbox, such as Kanopy, Hoopla, Criterion, even hbo max wasn’t on the consoles for a long time.

Lots of reason

For me personally, I don’t game on what is considered the “living room” TV, I game in my office/man cave on a 27inch monitor with an HDMI switch so I can flip between consoles and PC, and since we cut the cord, having a Roku in the living room just makes sense. Now we have a Roku TV in the living room, but every other…

1) We have more TVs than PS4s.

It has a normal looking remote control. Try handing a Dual-Shock 4 to my 64 year old mother so she can watch Netflix and see how far that gets you. Also the layout is a super simplistic grid of apps.

Honestly the Roku apps just work better than the PS4 apps. They tend to load quicker and generally have an easier time streaming at 4k over my wifi. The Roku literally sits right next to the PS4 so you’d think it wouldn’t be a big difference, but it really is noticeable, at least for me. Plus, as others have…

My secondary tv is the first generation display to have apps (2010 Samsung). Those apps work poorly anyway and I lost that stupid wifi dongle. An updated, but still basic 1080p Roku works almost flawlessly.

The spectrum app 🤔 unless they added it recently?

You don’t have to turn on the console for one. If I have to turn on my TV and select the HDMI input, selecting whatever app I want is just as easy, will load faster, I don’t need to grab another controller, and it saves power because I don’t turn on the console or use my controller battery (which is tiny amounts of…

Lower power consumption. Roku-class devices use just 5w of power whereas modern consoles use multiples of hundreds of watts.

I wonder how you fix a burned bridge? I bet the answer is “A whole bunch of money.”

Honestly, art direction is a big reason for me; I really did not like the more realistic direction they took with World. Character models were all kinds of splotchy and muddy and new monsters felt very similar to one another in terms of hues and features outside of elder dragons. It’s why I preferred the PC version,…

If you have to choose only one, I would say stick with World. However, as all multiplayer games, people move on. So without a solid team the game is boring. When majority of player move onto the next title, the game would be more fun to move on as well.