The importance of business of streaming and digital services

Hello again, dear reader(s).

I’m sure that just like me, you are almost done seeing everything that Netflix, Amazon or Crunchyroll can offer to you, right? Yeah, I’m starting to running out of options here. But if there’s one thing that we can’t complain is that thank God that streaming services are a common thing now.

Imagine if we were having this pandemic in 80’s or 90’s. I’m not saying that we wouldn’t survive because back then we didn’t have internet or streaming services, but, man, we would be bored as hell just reading the same old physical magazines and watching the same old stuff on tv.

I love video games and I used to play a lot. I still play it, but I just don’t have the time as I did back then. Video games did not change that much since the Atari days, back in the 80’s. I mean, you still use a joystick, a cartridge (or disk) game to play the game and that’s it.

But what really change after all these years is how you can acquire your games to play. Today we don’t need to rely only on cartridges or discs, but we also can play these same games by downloading then. We don’t need to get out of our houses to buy a game, we can buy the game at the internet and the play it in our video game system. And believe me, When we can’t go out like before, having the option to pay for the game play it at your home, is one of those things that can save a soul.

For a long time, the debate between physic games and digital games have been great, because people are afraid that digital only games can disappear from the digital market, and that is a really good point, but I think it’s also good to have options. Even with services like iTunes and Spotify, people can still buy CDs and even Vinyls to listen their favorite bands. I understand having physical copies as a way to preserve history, and I’m totally down with that, but to abolish digital games, is out of question, specially now with Covid-19.

Business as services such as Netflix and Youtube are essential in this day and age, even more now with moments like this, that we are not able to leave our houses. And I really think, for the better or worse, that streaming services are here to stay and they are going to be the normal. Of course, there is this endless debate about what we own versus what we rent with digital services like these. But I think that as the same way that a disc or paper can vanish with time, so digital things that does not have a way to do a backup.

But I can say for sure that I can’t go back to the walkman or discman days because I listen to a lot of musics. I can’t imagine how many discs or tapes I would have to carry inside my backpack.