9 Very Possible Gaming News Headlines From 2025

8. Game Pass & PS Now Eliminates The Need For Consoles

It's the way the industry is going. Once streaming services are locked down - to the point lag is eliminated and the hardware side of things is smoothed out on the server side - why wouldn't the industry go the way of streaming?

Something like Spotify was barely a blip on the radar back in 2015, but now it's the go-to music streaming platform. Movies too tend to fall into the Netflix or Amazon Prime bucket, and as of 2020 almost half of all readers surveyed by America's National Endowment for the Arts institute read books digitally.

Sony tried the whole "pair your controller with your television" thing with PlayStation TV, and though that didn't sell thanks to asking people to buy another processing unit, the idea of bluetooth'ing a DualSense or Xbox pad to access a PS or Xbox app on your smart TV is much smoother.

With Ubisoft's Yves Guillermot thinking the current generation will be the last and Xbox prepping for an all-digital Game Pass future, this feels like a (sad) inevitability.