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How do you feel about cloud-based gaming?

I love it 7 22.58%
 
I hate it 24 77.42%
 
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There are things I agree with him on and things I don't. I for one am in the camp that eventually gaming won't be the way it is now. Just like how we travel wasn't the same even 100 years ago. When the shift will happen for gaming, it's really impossible to fully know, unless Ubisoft has spec info for PS5 and is making a prediction based off what they know.

It's only natural that the way we consume content will change in the future as technology becomes more advanced. I just don't think it's going to happen as soon as Yves says it is. It's not like I want this to happen but it's going to happen, when is the question. Nobody thought they'd ever be without their walkman or portable CD player either, but then we get ipod and it snowballs from there. PSNow and Cloud gaming are in their infancy stages, their walkman stages, the portable CD stage. Eventually the way we consume game content is going to be different, that much I'm sure of. It's not ready yet, but it will be. It may not be in my lifetime or yours, but technology always moves forward, whether we like it or not.

The only thing we do from there is try to keep the old ways alive like how collectors and the like are trying to keep Vinyl alive. But it's not like Vinyl is the most distributed format today.

Last edited by Ljink96 - on 07 June 2018

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AlfredoTurkey said:
Signalstar said:
PS Now and RE 7 Cloud Version prove that machine power and specs don't matter if you have a capable enough internet connection. All you need is a screen, a controller, and internet. Why require an expensive console?

I have a crazy fast internet connection and PS Now still lags. It's playable, but so much worse than owning the game either physically or digitally.

This is a valid point. Especially when you factor in the fact that there are still plenty of places that do not have internet nowhere near fast enough to allow for streamed games in a playable state. This is what Ubisoft wants to happen, it is not necessarily going to be what is going to happen.
RE 7 Cloud Version proves that we are not ready for this sort of distribution. Even with Japan's fast servers, people are still experiencing latency issues. It also undermines the ability to play games on the Switch portably. 



Ljink96 said:

There are things I agree with him on and things I don't. I for one am in the camp that eventually gaming won't be the way it is now. Just like how we travel wasn't the same even 100 years ago. When the shift will happen for gaming, it's really impossible to fully know, unless Ubisoft has spec info for PS5 and is making a prediction based off what they know.

It's only natural that the way we consume content will change in the future as technology becomes more advanced. I just don't think it's going to happen as soon as Yves says it is. It's not like I want this to happen but it's going to happen, when is the question. Nobody thought they'd ever be without their walkman or portable CD player either, but then we get ipod and it snowballs from there. PSNow and Cloud gaming are in their infancy stages, their walkman stages, the portable CD stage. Eventually the way we consume game content is going to be different, that much I'm sure of. It's not ready yet, but it will be. It may not be in my lifetime or yours, but technology always moves forward, whether we like it or not.

The only thing we do from there is try to keep the old ways alive like how collectors and the like are trying to keep Vinyl alive. But it's not like Vinyl is the most distributed format today.

Yup agree with you, the question is " when " and not " will it happen? ".  Like it or not it will coming, but like u said. Cloud gaming is not for our generation , probably for our future grand grand kid. 



"Ubisoft CEO is wrong" is a more appropriate title.



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On one hand I don't really like consoles because it fuels stupid fanboys dismissing games for not being on their platform (as a matter of fact, the whole concept of exclusives is not ideal for a media that wants to be regarded as an artform imo), but on the other hand I think tying games to the internet is dangerous for preservation and overall an annoyance if your internet connection is not great. I feel like an ideal solution would be if all games were available for the PC in an easily accessable and legal way, so in the sense Microsoft is the one company people should be praising, but instead people critize them for making the Xbone "irrelevant".



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they said the same thing about PS3/360 generation too.... so yeah



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Nem said:
zygote said:

They always say this. No, next will be VR takeover and maybe one or two other types of quirky new gameplay options. VR tech will keep advancing and becoming more accessible for at least the next two or three generations.

Oh boy... some people just can't get the message. Let me put it like this: The PS Vita and the Wii U are more popular than PS VR. VR as a contraption in your head will NEVER work. VR may have potencial with hologram projectors, but spare me the screen on my face. We are very far from any VR takeover until those projectors can be made affordable.

We’ll see what comes down the pipeline, but I played Oculus for the first time a couple of weeks ago and minus the cords and double the resolution and that will be the future of gaming. That is the next landscape in video games.  I am almost certain that PS5 will be a primary VR system with “optional” TV output. As displays get lighter and conforming and wireless image streaming allows for lighter headsets we may end up with a very minimal setup as easy to slide on as a pair of glasses. The assumption that consoles are ending is an assumption that the existing format of games will remain consistent and has reached a limit. That just isn’t the case with VR coming into its adolescence. 



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I personally like physical games. Streaming games means you always have to be online, you cannot play anywhere without an internet connection, and a lot of people still don’t have one that will stream last gen games. Microsoft tried an always online console and it didn’t really work.
Even if the quality of your internet was fine, as soon as their is a fault on the line, server issues etc, then you can no longer play.