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Birimbau on 26 August 2014
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torok said:
Mystro-Sama said:
This isn't happening anytime soon if at all. There are waaaay too many network problems plaguing this industry, especially after MS tried to force this future upon the gamers prematurely.

And there are plenty people out there that still think physical copy superior since it gives them the opportunity to sell it to buy other games or lend it to friends.


Of course it isn't. But you have to develop the tech early if you want that to become a reality in the future. I'm all for physical media, but games as a service is something inevitable. We see streaming for movies and videos, downloads for music and so on. Everything on computing tries to go to the cloud.

Anything has to start somewhere in order to become mainstream in the future. When the modern computer started being researshed, we heared the following statements:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. And now there are computers everywhere, since big supermachines until the smallest smartphone.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. It was in the age where personal computers started being developed. Only expensive server like computers existed.

Clould gaming is currently facing such disbiliefs, but it is just a matter of time until the tech develops enough and people embrace it with smilling faces.