No we fucking wont. But i might only play indie games by then
The tech bros like him, Bezos, Huang, and all those other tech fascists are working extra hard to make sure we don’t have the software or hardware to buy in order to play or do anything independently.
I’ll go back to playing NES roms before I pay for game streaming
I mean… I won’t.
How many times does cloud gaming need to fail before these corporate stooges give up on it
It can, should and hopefully will fail forever, but it only has to succeed once. Telecom companies unwillingness to invest in new infrastructure might actually be our saving grace, because I don’t see cloud gaming ever gaining critical mass without most people having reliable and cheap access to fiber internet.
At this point it doesn’t even have to succeed, just be the only choice as the tech fascists kill the ability to buy hardware and software.
Motherfucker, I don’t buy your games at all.
That’ll work well for me with a 100ms ping latency motherfucker.
I’ll be streaming something, it’ll just be on your outta touch head.
Because this kind of thinking went so well for Ubisoft.
Don’t forget the great success of Google Stadia!
The speed of light will still be in effect on three years, so we’ll all be watching streamers who built their PC before the rampocalypse play the latest games that we’ll never be able to afford.
Or maybe fewer of us will game, of course. If you kill quality you kill your customer base.
So basically most germans won’t be able to play video games then anymore lol
Can we please stop listening and quoting company CEOs. Haven’t we all learned how clueless they truly all are ?
Yea please. I keep saying it too. Wake up you fucking sheeple. Many folks who become CEOs are some of the worst of the worst cause that is the only way you get there. A CEO only says things that make them money.
Clueless or not, zelnick is in the position to attempt to make this happen. Sony seems to be on board with them, and I bet microsoft is salivating at the thought as well.
They’ll be force-feeding streaming soon enough. I’m fully convinced they’re gonna push streaming hard as soon as the AI bubble bursts, just so they can justify building all those data centers.
Who is “they”? Major game publishers? How will they convince 80 different indie publishers to stop publishing locally run games?
Microsoft was already working on streaming the entire OS. They’ll find a way.
Okay? People have already been abandoning Windows on the gaming front. More hurdles and roadblocks will speed that up. How will they sell these products as useful?
And you still haven’t answered who “they” is. Now it’s Microsoft? Or Nvidia? Why wouldn’t AMD capitalize on the gap?
By all means, be a concerned consumer. But your concerns become incoherent and easy to dismiss when you don’t think critically about them and frame them in a direct way that exposes problems people will be impacted by.
Those AI datacenters are pretty much single use. If you want to use them for anything else, you need to strip out everything down to the concrete and power leads, and install a new set of equipment.
Tax write off.
Microsoft can’t even justify an online subsciption service for $30/month. They already bacled down that price. And I don’t think we need to talk much about Stadia who tried the “pay $60 to stream a game” model.
No way in high hell this takes off. The economics aren’t there and the competition is too strong. Not to mention I don’t think the internet infrastructure is quite ready for that kind of mass streaming anyway.
as soon as the AI bubble bursts
We’ve been saying that for a long time now. Still going strong, even though I would personally love to see it burst and we can get back to normal.
And nothing of value would be lost… It’s maybe just me, but the last thing take-two (or rockstar) made, which was good, was Vice City.
Oh come on, you can’t say GTA San Andreas wasn’t amazing!
I actually skipped that one because of GTA oversaturation.
Heard that before lol
Yeah, but now consoles are gonna cost $1,000 and lower-mid-rang PCs even more.
Streaming games sucks, but it’ll be the only option for people who can spend that kind of cash on the hardware.
as if lol. even if compute gets cheap (seems like not), installing high speed internet all over the world? that’s a huge project that nobody is working on.
And all for what, too? Just so you don’t have to spend 20 minutes downloading a game one time?
i mean streaming gives big corporations more power, like the power to shut off your game if you don’t pay a subscription fee, the power to track everything you do
Of course, but that isn’t going to drive consumer demand in a good direction and studios are already shutting down left and right.
They don’t need to switch to a streaming model in order to charge subscription fees, and streaming isn’t going to bring any benefit to the player (and comes with huge drawbacks if, for example, you have shitty internet speeds or data caps), so again I’ll ask why? It’s just adding tons of unnecessary bandwidth usage over the current model but offers no benefit that I can see to anyone involved.
