Me with my over 500 games backlog in steam and thousands of Roms in emulators:
Straus Zelnick can lick my nuts.
Given RAM keeps getting bought out by data centers, and AAA games keep requiring more RAM & GPU juice. For the chunk of gamers who ‘need’ to play the latest AAA this could easily become a reality.
Luckily us indie gamers can keep playing on our potatoes and be happy.
I had a GeForce Now Founder account but finally let it lapse as the price kept going up. I also bought into Google Stadia and it was great technology wise.
I don’t see cloud gaming as a bad thing as a backup, or when you’re on the road.
However, like everything these days, the fuckers will just keep jacking up the price to squeeze every penny out of the market. Or lock it down so you have to buy from their store.
This is the real problem. The technology is capable and we could have nice things but these assholes will just ruin it so fuck 'em.
I don’t see cloud gaming as a bad thing as a backup
I agree, I’d like to have the OPTION to stream cloud games in addition to the OPTION of playing games digitally and the OPTION of owning games physically.
The keyword here being OPTION.
Even if they’re not greedy, I don’t think the price that it would take to provide that service at cost is going to ever be a price people are willing to pay.
Probably true. Especially with the current hardware prices.
AAA cattle will be streaming their games in 3 years. FTFY
fuck that noise, I’ll play ROMs of SNES for the rest of my life if it comes to it. idgaf. never giving in to cloud based bullshit ever
True, but don’t sleep on the Mega Drive / Genesis, or the Neo Geo too!
There are legitimately so many incredible titles in the 4th (16bit) console generation, that it could keep most people playing for a decade or more.
…and that’s BEFORE gaming exploded in popularity with the 5th & 6th console generations.
Ah, yet another rephrasing of “You’ll own nothing.”
In 3 years my internet will be just as capable of streaming games as it was 20 years ago.
And it will cost even more though.
lmao, good fucking luck realizing this without massive expenditures in infrastructure. In the US, internet is basically shit everywhere i’ve ever lived, I’ve never been able to even stream from my own PC to my phone without the experience being excruciating and unplayable on anything that wasn’t turn based.
That’s mainly because upload speed is capped much lower than download speed. That’s reversed if you’re streaming from a service though. Still a shit idea either way, hell the streaming services of several years went under in what a year or two.
Yeah. Take-Two CEO is a dumbass for the logistical reasons alone. Good-enough-to-stream-games internet is more rare than household VR headsets. There is not enough market to support this industry at the scale required to make it financially viable.
Not in America at least, which is a problem given that America is the single biggest market in the world.
they don’t care… they want people to pay for shit service to then upgrade to the less shit service to have its terms change without your consent or prior knowledge to the more expensive service that requires some other shit or specific hardware… which will also be shit.
Upgrade to less shit service? Wake me up in 2034 when that’s an option.
so you don’t want to pay just an extra 1.99 for only 4 ads instead of 8? also for another 0.99 you get the chance to earn upto 70% off your next subscription to the monthly pre-order bidding
You will own nothing and like it!
if that’s what they want. I’ll stop consuming quite easily.
“Dale, if I’m streaming my games in the future, I’m gonna kick your ass.”
Sadly I don’t disagree, and that is the endgame, but 3 years is ridiculously short. Probably more like 10.
If a game requires internet to play I don’t pay!
I won’t.
They can kiss my hairy ass, not on the left, not on the right, but right in the middle. I’ll play the 40 plus years of games I’ve already amassed over and over instead. Hell I’ll even make myself ai slop choose your own adventure books before I spend one cent on streaming only anything.
So I’m not gonna be buying more games in 3 years? Guess I’ll have time to work on my backlog
