Shadow1980 said:
bunchanumbers said:
You also need to add something else to your title, which will be the new games brought in for unlimited streaming. Netflix does the same thing with movies. They rotate out movies all the time and there isn't outrage. In the end, it will play out just like that. Besides contracts can be renewed and updated. We couldn't get the Donkey Kong Country games in the States for a while and look what came on sale last week? Donkey Kong Country games. It won't be the end of the world.
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Because Netflix generally has a terrible selection (I can never find diddly squat when I'm at my sister's), plus, y'know, I can go buy the movie on Blu-ray and own it forever. You don't really lose anything when Netflix delists a title. Remember what I said about forcing things? If Netflix was all there was for movies, I think that there'd be a lot of pissed off people, but people that like to watch movies have options (DVD, Blu-ray, download, streaming). People who listen to music have options (CD, mp3, stream). People who like to read have options (print books, e-books). If gaming goes completely to PS Now-like services, your only choices are stream or do without. So, I think we'll see two possible outcomes next generation: 1) Consoles still have disc drives and major titles are still released physically, or 2) they don't have disc drives and the market crashes like 1983 all over again.
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But there won't be only one streaming service. Sony will have one, MS will have one, Nvidia will have one, OnLive will have one as well. Plus there will be others. Just like how there is Netflix, there is Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBOGO etc.
Also something you forget is that a bluray isn't dependent on the power of the hardware. Or rather, that the cost to make a bluray run is negligible. Its not like that with games. Its why it will be dependent on streaming more than ever. This goes back to the hardware development costs that console makers wouldn't want to pay again.
But there will be options, like you said. If you don't like PSNow, Rio, GriD, or OnLive, there will always be PC and Nintendo who will provide physical game options.
