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kitler53 on 04 October 2012
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ganoncrotch said:
kain_kusanagi said:
kitler53 said:
i know nothing about any medical equipment but at the time of the gaikai buyout i heard nothing but praise from investors. to me, that particular buyout seemed reasonably prices with a good amount of potential. ..i hope so at least.


I'm not so sure Gaikai was a good buy. After what happened to OnLive it's not looking good for cloud gaming. As someone who's broadband internet isn't fast enough I'm glad that it will be a long while before it takes off. I prefer buying games on actual media that I can hold. MS smartly didn't buy Onlive even though they have the money.


I think the main fear now of anyone putting any money into a cloud gaming on-live type account was after the scare that they were going to go bankrupt people realized that if that happens they have nothing, you have spent money for games you will never have access to again and there really wouldn't be any fair comeback, it's not like the xbox where if microsoft stopped existing tomorrow all the games on my shelf would vanish. I think the prospect of investing money into a gaming collection which could just dissappear is not gonna happen.

 

As a nuts games collector too the concept of cloud gaming is kinda nasty for me, gotta have the boxes on a shelf!

and i get that and to a certain extent i have also been that.  but let me ask... do you have netflix?

psn+ is basically gaming netflx..or at least developing into that.  yeah i know, i don't get to keep the games forever.  but you know what?.. i get around $2,000 in content a year for only $50.  it's really the same as netflix where for $10 a month i get hundreds of thousands of movies/tv.  at that price i'm quite alright with not "owning" the content because i'd be spending a tens of thousands of dollars a year instead of $120 for how much content i consume.  now with gaikai wrapped into the service so that i didn't have to have a 500 Gb drive for the massive amount of downloading.  fuck yeah!

i mean think about it.  the average consumer only buys 1 or 2 games a year.  if for the same price of owning those aren't you just a bit tempted to have every game ever even if you do not techincally "own" it?  a couple of years back i gave away my nes, snes, n64, and all of it's games.  it is surpisingly easy to get rid of that old junk especially have having it sit in  an unopened box for up to 20 years.  i just don't think i care for that little box of crap anymore, it's a waste of space to me now.