Subscription-Based Gaming Today

Netflix is far from the first company to try subscription-based gaming.

Then, theres Google Stadia.

Most notably, the platform had a supersuccessful rollout of Cyberpunk 2077late last year.

Closeup of a hand reaching for a gaming controller.

Guido Mieth / Getty Images

Even Amazon is getting into the gaming world.

It introducedAmazon Lunalast year.

However, it also could hurt an entire community of gamers who rely on physical copies of games.

Looking over the shoulder of a person playing video games on a small television.

Carol Yepes / Getty Images