As the videogame industry moves to its next major upgrade, it will have to reckon with a rather inconvenient truth: Old habits die hard. Microsoft recently announced a new version of its Xbox One console that doesn’t take game discs. The box instead features onboard storage that allows gamers to download and save games. The company also is developing a cloud-based gaming service called Project xCloud, with a release date unknown. Google lifted the wraps last month on its own cloud-gaming service called Stadia, and Amazon.com...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 23, 2019 10:52 UTC