Submitted 1 day ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/take-two-ceo-predicts-game-streaming-three-years-2000722435
That headline completely misrepresents what he actually says.
Personally, I can see streaming gaining more of a foothold again, due to hardware prices, but only for the niche of high-fidelity games. And I rather imagine that niche is primarily going to shrink.
We’ve already got the “friendslop” games gaining massively in popularity. And if people can’t afford new hardware, a streaming service will be just as hard of a sell.
Straus Zelnick can lick my nuts.
Can’t make people pay to stream board games and dnd. Which, coincidentally, I am buying guide books for because shitfucks like this are actively making gaming harder and harder to continue to justify morally to myself.
They: don’t pay their staff but give executives massive bonuses (Game company CEOS are among the highest when you look at pay disparity charts), indulge in layoffs on failure or success (listing non-paid wages in the quarter as profit to shareholders) , continously justify gambling as not because it’s digital (lootboxes, “player packs” boosters), actively erode consumer rights (liscense vs ownership), actively treat their consumers like dogshit (the ps3 WILL cost $700 and if you do not like it you can…get an Xbox? Lol?), cutting content of products to add back as paid extra content (moving up deadlines and prioritizing XYZ at the end so it’s “not done” by deadline so it can be added back later for a price to beat the “we intentionally didn’t include it” allegations)
Gaming’s shitty practices are ruining other markets and the governments of the world’s refusal to reign them in is causing spillover into other things.
I won’t.
I’ve never enjoyed any of these fuckers games… if they disappear tomorrow, my gaming habits won’t change one bit. Go make games worth playing first 😂
Sadly I don’t disagree, and that is the endgame, but 3 years is ridiculously short. Probably more like 10.
I remember the CEO of NVIDIA making similar claims like 10-15 years ago (and being rather eager for that future to come), but I’m not really seeing anything that has changed since then that makes it more likely now.
There’s the increases in hardware costs, yes, but in order to get sufficiently low latency, you can’t just plop one or a few big data centers per country, you need at least one smaller one pretty much per town. And to ensure a good quality of service, those are going to need more redundant hardware than a more centralised solution would, and given that cloud gaming service providers are also affected by hardware getting more expensive, that would make for some very high up-front costs.
There’s the possibility of VCs throwing dumb money at these companies until they control the market, but for that to work, they need to actually be able to take control of the market. But they’re not just competing against the latest and greatest, they’re also competing against ten year old hardware that’s considerably more affordable. Things aren’t advancing as quickly as they used to, and I doubt the shrinking number of people who do always want the best possible are going to be too thrilled about having graphics littered with compression artifacts.
Maybe from my PC to my Steam Deck, lol
If he means that all the unemployed people are gonna be Twitch streamers, then maybe. If he means that we are gonna be streaming the games from their servers, I would wager that their servers will mysteriously be hit with a thermite bomb, before that shit happens.
Lol is he okay?
I mean. The first time round with strata and stuff yeah they said stuff like that but now?
Also it won’t be true whenever.
The-what CEO?
Shan't.
I got a 3DS and DSi not too long ago to play games on, so I’m more likely to go backwards and get old tech to play timeless classics than stream new games.
You might be… ya fuckin prick
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
“Dale, if I’m streaming my games in the future, I’m gonna kick your ass.”