PCMR response:What these, I'm guessing predominantly PC gamers, don't understand is this logic that consoles are dying due to streaming also(if using this same logic) points to the death of PC gaming. Why would anyone buy a PC when they could stream off of a Fire stick? Hmmmm?
Pretty much my take on it, with 36 years worth of backlog, I think it'll be fine if people want to be enslaved to corporate bullshit, not own anything and love them for itAs I’ve said many a time, when everything goes digital I’ll give up gaming for good. From Atari 2600 days to PS5 if that’s the case then so be it.
The same reason why they want an inferior everything else.I will never understand why people are so eager for the inferior gaming experience.
No but streaming will probably kill off many dedicated gaming PCs. That's assuming this article is right and it takes off super quickly.If anything it will follow the trajectory of PC gaming:
Disc drive to no disc drive. Streaming isnt killing off the PC hardware market.
Consoles will go all digital first before being killed by streaming.
I love the "We get these articles every generation and it's never true" responses.
We got these articles one other time. It's obviously going to come true sooner or later.
As of right now the public response point overwhelmingly to 'YES'. As I mentioned in the other thread the problem with Cloud Infrastructure is the fact that no.1 market - the US - has terrible Internet coverage with data caps. You cannot have any meaningful cloud implementation with that.
It's not stupid, but it's a very niche proposition and as always in tech the larger your market the better you can scale. I can see Cloud working for a very specific customer:I will never be a 'cloud gamer', it's a stupid value proposition as a consumer & gamer.
Interesting article.
Sony may win the console battle with Microsoft but it may very well lose the war. Even Microsoft seems to acknowledge they are looking to compete with Google and Amazon and Sony isn't even their concern anymore.
Microsoft has the infrastructure and know how to potentially dominate Sony over Cloud gaming. I like being able to stream games myself. Will PlayStation exclusives be enough?
https://www.ccn.com/the-ps5-could-be-sonys-last-gaming-console-ever/
Opinion.
edit: Whats up about the bunch of threads downplaying PS5?
Yeah, it would help a lot if people did step out of their bubble.Yeah we just had a generation with combined total more than 150m ( not even accounting Switch sales) sold shows it is getting irrelevant.
And not to mention how nobody can buy the next gen console because of its insane demand shows it is so irrelevant.
Cloud gaming will take decades. People living in big cities think it's around the corner. Try going out once in a while and access internet around even in developed countries let alone developing ones.
It's not as widely accessible as you think it is. lolPeople are stupid and buy wherever is pushed on them by corporations that means nothing sales has nothing to do with my point
They are irrelevant in terms of the necessity for gaming you don't need a console anymore to play games they are a choice now choices are good
Cloud gaming is five years from being perfected it will be the norm
In the near future people are either going to be mega wealthy or dirt poor the people who can't get good internet will also be irrelevant
Corporations are run by people/made up of people. It's so easy to forget that. He is right though, based on the responses in this thread, some people seem very eager to jump into streaming. Don't get me wrong, what streaming promises us is convenience and when it is globally ready, it will sway more people over to its side. That will happen as long as people running these corproations keep investing money into it. But like everything it will come at a cost and that could be ownership rights. I know we don't own the license to something when we buy, we are buying the right to play it, but we've got more control of a physical version of something and streaming just distances us from that even more.Gamers are not eager for a lesser gaming experience. Corporations are eager to change expectations through marketing and influencers to make you accept less for more/same. While Corps and their media slaves have a say, as consumers, and hardcore gamers you all ultimately decide a lot by choosing which company/business model to support. Just make the "right" choice.
I predicted that at the end of the day, Google will purchase the PlayStation brand. I still stand behind that.
America still have data caps? How come no company has counter offered that measure and stole all the clients already? In Spain never had those and we are way poorer than the states.As of right now the public response point overwhelmingly to 'YES'. As I mentioned in the other thread the problem with Cloud Infrastructure is the fact that no.1 market - the US - has terrible Internet coverage with data caps. You cannot have any meaningful cloud implementation with that.
Ownership of the infrastructure makes it very costly / difficult to expand. In the US 3 providers work in mostly oligopolistic manner. I remember in Poland in the late 1990s the government ordered the public telecom company, who owned all the cables, to make them available to other providers.America still have data caps? How come no company has counter offered that measure and stole all the clients already? In Spain never had those and we are way poorer than the states.
As of right now the public response point overwhelmingly to 'YES'. As I mentioned in the other thread the problem with Cloud Infrastructure is the fact that no.1 market - the US - has terrible Internet coverage with data caps. You cannot have any meaningful cloud implementation with that.
Cloud gaming is nothing but extra AWS capacity trying to find a new customer base, so it's tough to take it seriously. That line of MS trying to compete with Google and Amazon instead of Sony doesn't make sense since
a) Google's and Amazon's entry into the cloud market already flopped, a notoriously conservative market, but most importantly
b) MS can barely compete with Sony as it is, being outsold more than 2:1 last generation and that's being conservative.
These tech writers always try to find some new angle to talk about to get paid, but many times don't really regard market realities that prevent it from making it happen.
Ps5 huge success is making people uncomfortable and panick is arriving now. Seeing the next 8 years of Sony completelly decimating and breaks Stock Records must be tough for so many journalist who predicted their downfall in 2011.
Microsoft is going to win the console war by competing with companies who have no consolesMicrosoft seems to acknowledge they are looking to compete with Google and Amazon and Sony isn't even their concern anymore
These kind of articles are right, they just always get the timeframe wrong.
I mean it was BEFORE the PS3/360 generation where we got the very first murmours of the 'next gen' consoles possibly not having a disk drive, it didnt happen. Those articles then ramped up considerable before the PS4/XB1 gen, yet they still launched with a drrive. Now we have the latest generation and the 2 main consoles still have a drive.
Sure we wont be playing on a console 30 years from now, i think everyone realizes that, but i expect one more generation after current gen. Remember we are talking 15 or 16 years from now with that, and i would expect at least one of Microsoft and Sony to go full streaming with 'Playstation 7', or 'Xbox 6'.
Its going to happen, there is nothing to avoid it, its just going to happen later than all thse 'experts' and 'analysts' think.