| binary solo said: It needs to be good enough in all the markets where consoles are currently selling. If you release a streaming only device today you are cutting off millions of units in sales across the lifetime of the product because you can't release in all the countries you are currently selling the traditional console. Given in theory streaming devices should have very long product cycles, since you don't need to upgrade specs very often, you need to give yourself the biggest possible market in order to keep selling the device. I just don't see a move to streaming only devices until the 10th gen at the earliest.
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Devices? You wouldn't be selling devices. Streaming is a service. There wouldn't be any product cycle. It would be indefinite. The money is made via subscriptions and rental fees. You could stream on anything with Bluetooth, a screen, and an internet connection, as long as you have a controller. FYI, that's like every electronic device released after the year 2010. Game streaming can be "mainstream" as soon as 2020, and likely will with PS Now leading and XBL and Nintendo having smaller services like local streaming with Live and VC streaming with Nintendo.
There won't be a 10th generation. I'd wouldn't even call the NX the 8th generation. This is the last real traditional generation. All the next platforms will be infinite platforms, unrestricted by generational hardware, which is what a generation is. There won't be a PS5/XB2 that lasts from 2022-2030. That's absurd, and thinking that will happen two more times afterwards to some mythical 10th generation is legitimate comedy. Not happening. Consoles being around in like 2040? Not in your wildest dreams.
