I hope streaming fails hard. I still don't do digital and I don't even touch always online games. And it really hurt to give up on Diablo because of that.
It takes genuine talent to see greatness in yourself despite your absence of genuine talent.
starcraft said:
So it is a traditional next generation console. But its not a traditional marketing strategy. |
Dosent MS has press statements all the time glorifing gamepass and streaming? They brag more about it than they do their consoles. Its kind of obvious what is their focus.
It takes genuine talent to see greatness in yourself despite your absence of genuine talent.
Gaming 100% reliant on internet connection and ISPs? No thanks.
Hmm, pie.
Yep, all the nonsense about how the XSX isn’t a “traditional console” is irrelevant when the fact is you can use it the way you use any other console. You can buy physical games and stay offline and not subscribe to either of these optional services.
| The Fury said: Gaming 100% reliant on internet connection and ISPs? No thanks. |
Actually I have more power failures each year than internet failures nowadays...
But Switch doesn't care about power failures, nor does my laptop, or streaming games on a phone ;)
It is not about people wanting it or not. It is about both the cloud technology and internet infrastructure getting better to a point the mass public (mainly the younger generations) will adopt it.
Convenience will always win the market.
| LudicrousSpeed said: Yep, all the nonsense about how the XSX isn’t a “traditional console” is irrelevant when the fact is you can use it the way you use any other console. You can buy physical games and stay offline and not subscribe to either of these optional services. |
Same debate different thread
Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles.
zero129 said:
Exactly, it doesnt matter what me or any other user want on this site. once internet speeds etc get to a point where the isnt much difference between streaming and playing locally the younger gen will adopt it. MS is putting themselves in a good position for the future as they clearly see the bigger picture of where the market is going to go. Now just like with Netflix and other streaming options its very much possible that users will still be able to buy their games without using streaming (I hope) just like users can still buy movies on blueray and music on cd's if they wish. But just like them two formats they wont be the most popular in the future and it will mostly be the older generation like myself that will still do that, and just like people say "Why would anyone buy a cd or dvd etc when u can just pay a sub and listen or watch whatever you want whenever you want on as many devices as you want" the same will hold true for gaming the younger gen will be looking at us like we dinosaurs. |
Second time this year a new blu-ray release (Frozen 2) is out of stock at Amazon. I guess it's the norm now, not even a date, we'll email when it becomes available. Perhaps the virus is affecting production, dunno. I'm also waiting for Amazon to put The Expanse Season 4 on blu-ray, do not want to watch it from a stream.
It's already getting harder to find physical copies of lesser known games while many smaller games don't even get physical releases anymore. We'll probably get to a point where a game releases on streaming services first, then a week later digital to buy and some time after the physical release might become available or not. Play it first with EA streaming access etc.
As long as the price is fair, many people just want to play a game and move on. Most don't give a danm about collecting boxes. So why not streaming?
Fair subscription model will be the decisive factor, not the technology itself.
The only problem will be the multiplication of subscription accounts once the technology gets commoditised among the publishers/devs. The same thing that is going on with TV.
God bless You.
My Total Sales prediction for PS4 by the end of 2021: 110m+
When PS4 will hit 100m consoles sold: Before Christmas 2019
There were three ravens sat on a tree / They were as blacke as they might be / The one of them said to his mate, Where shall we our breakfast take?
| d21lewis said: As a little kid playing whatever I could for 25 cents a pop, I never cared about owning a game. I just wanted to play. As I got older and finally got an NES, I wanted to keep as many games as I could--even if they sucked. And I wanted to beat every single game I played before moving on to the next one. As I got older and got my own money, I bought more and more games and machines each generation. Eventually owning more games than I could ever dream of beating. Now, as I'm older, things have almost come full circle. I have my digital collection but all I care about is being able to play whatever I want to play. My collection of maybe thousands of games mean very little to me. On any given day, I look at decades of collecting and there's just nothing I want to play. I can see myself eventually giving streaming a go. One day. |
Thank you for sharing this.
Collectors can get to a point where they don't care about collecting any more while most actually will never collect anyway. It's all about getting access to the game. The digital game that doesn't run after the server was shut down is a non issue for most people, due to the fact that they will never want to play that again.
For the collectors, I think the collecting marketing will never be shut down. There'll be always games on boxes for those who are into it. The same way that we still can collect CDs if we want (I wouldn't).
God bless You.
My Total Sales prediction for PS4 by the end of 2021: 110m+
When PS4 will hit 100m consoles sold: Before Christmas 2019
There were three ravens sat on a tree / They were as blacke as they might be / The one of them said to his mate, Where shall we our breakfast take?
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