Hey Cyan, can I be valiant too?
No, but you could become yogurt...
Hey Cyan, can I be valiant too?
I have a feeling it's a traditional standalone console, with streaming gaming services in place.
Hmm wonder what it’s going to do to people’s data caps.
Streaming services are fine and all, but I think the biggest road block will be fragmentation of content. I'm not going to be subscribing to multiple services to get all the content I want. If Google wants to do their thing, EA, Microsoft, Sony, etc, it's not going to work.
That will happen anyway as the Cloud increases in power and new games try to attract you away from the old games. Games ten years from now will be significantly better than games launching on Google Cloud Gaming tomorrow.But one of the reasons I go out on day one to buy a new more powerfull console, is to have better and more evolved games.
Streaming movies has meant more revenue, not less. You can't lend a streamed movie unlike disks. So comparing that to games, a $70, 50 hour game won't be covered with a steaming service as you say, but it also won't be lent, and could see a few months worth of subscribing. It won't be lent, so everyone wanting to play will have to pay. And the average retail price of a disc game is far, far below the launch day price, so it's not a $70 comparison.
PSNow started in 2014. That's 4 years of data, and it's shown Sony that PSNow is worth increasing, not giving up on.
The main issue with streaming services is the quality. As long as they are an option and don't displace game sales, I see nothing wrong with them.
That will happen anyway as the Cloud increases in power and new games try to attract you away from the old games. Games ten years from now will be significantly better than games launching on Google Cloud Gaming tomorrow.
What you say is only true as long as you ignore Netflix originals. Netflix are spending crazy monies on exclusive, day 1 content, that users only pay a tiddly subscription fee for. However, given the sheer number of people subscribing, it seems worth it.
And they'll duke it out and die off and be bought out until 2 players remain, to both be bought by some Chinese super-conglomerate or Apple...There are a lot of players already prepared to enter the market.
Well it would make sense on a Google platform, especially (only?) for YouTube streaming, to send the game stream from the source server instead of the client and inject any voice audio from the client only.Can you stream the streamed game you're playing ?
Streamception
Isn't the jury still out that Netflix is actually profitable?
And they'll duke it out and die off and be bought out until 2 players remain, to both be bought by some Chinese super-conglomerate or Apple...
That's actually where MS and Google are well positioned, with deep pockets to finance long-term growth. Sony's strategy has to be the more conservative. Little upstarts haven't a chance, so it'll really be a battle of the giants. Amazon also well positioned in theory due to their cloud infrastructure. Really, it's the cloud computing companies that have the most chance to win and will fight hardest.