5 on Your Side: A closer look at video game subscription services

Online multiplayer video games with chat features are providing safe, socially distance interaction during the pandemic. Video game subscription services prove affordable access to a large library of games.
Posted 9/11/2020, 10:06:49 PM

PLUS, CEASES SPECIAL INTERVIEWS

WITH ATHLETES AS WE MOVE

THROUGH THIS UNPRECEDENTED

SEASON.

THAT AIRS SUNDAY NIGHT RIGHT

AFTER OUR 10:00 NEWS.

>>> HAVE VIDEO GAMES BECOME A

GO TO DURING THE PANDEMIC?

LOOK FOR OTHER OPTIONS WITHOUT

A CONSOLE.

>> MONICA LALIBERTE CHECKS OUT

GAME SUBSCRIPTIONS.

>> Reporter: LIKE MANY, MOLLY

DAVIS HAS BEEN STUCK AT HOME

SINCE EARLY MARCH.

AFTER LOGGING OFF FROM WORK SHE

LOGS ONTO VIDEO GAMES TO HELP

PASS THE TIME.

>> MY CONSOLE OF CHOICE IS

NINTENDO SWITCH.

YOU CAN LOSE YOURSELF IN A GAME

. IT'S REALLY HELPFUL WHEN YOU

HAVE SO MUCH DOWNTIME.

>> Reporter: EVEN IF YOU DON'T

HAVE A NINTENDO SWITCH A NEW

CROP OF THE VIDEOGAME

SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES FROM BIG

TECH NAMES LIKE APPLE, GOOGLE,

AND MICROSOFT CAN BE PLAYED ON

A DEVICE YOU ALREADY OWN.

>> IT'S SIMILAR TO NETFLIX

WHERE YOU PAY FIVE DOLLARS OR

$10 A MONTH AND IN EXCHANGE YOU

GET ACCESS TO A LIBRARY OF

HUNDREDS OF VIDEOGAMES THAT YOU

CAN EITHER DOWNLOAD OR STREAM

AND THEN PLAY THEM ON WHATEVER

DEVICE YOU HAVE AVAILABLE.

>> Reporter: IF YOU HAVE AN

APPLE COMPUTER, iPHONE OR APPLE

TV YOU CAN CHECK OUT APPLE

ARCADE FOR FIVE DOLLARS A

MONTH.

MICROSOFT XBOX GAME PASS IS

ANOTHER OPTION.

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY BIG-NAME

GAMES LIKE HALO ON YOUR PC THEN

THERE IS GOOGLE STADIUM.

>> YOU CAN PLAY ON A SMART

PHONE AND TABLET FOR YOUR TB IF

YOU HAVE A CRUMB CAST ULTRA

STREAMING DEVICE WITH A

CONTROLLER.

WHICHEVER SERVICE YOU TRY MANY

OF THE GAMES CAN BE PLAYED IN

MULTIPLAYER MODE. SOMETHING

DAVIS APPRECIATES RIGHT NOW.

>> IT FEELS LIKE THEY ARE IN

THE ROOM WITH YOU.

>> Reporter: MONICA LALIBERTE,

WRAL NEWS.

>> MONICA AS WHEN STREAMING

GAMES CONSUMER REPORTS SAYS YOU

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