Five years ago, while heading back from E3 2016 (here is T3’s recap of Day1, Day 2, and Day 3 if you missed it), I concluded the following about the future direction of the gaming industry, which considering this week’s revelation about the new PlayStation Spartacus streaming service coming to PS5 and other hardware is, to be honest, another confirmation on the way I investigate and analyse the games industry for you.
Back in 2016 I said that:
“Seen until very recently as impractical, the growing of network services and earnings (Netflix, for example) compared to classic subscriptions, has convinced even the giants of Silicon Valley such as Microsoft to invest more and more in to what will be, according to even Wall Street’s big analysts, a revolution that will destroy the console market as we know it today within 3 years.

T3 reported live from E3 2016, where Microsoft had a big…

