Future of gaming?

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Intrinsic said:

spemanig said:

I think that in the coming years that audience will be plenty big enough to be the defacto business venture. People don't care about being always online. Like at all. Destiny and The Division are two of the most successful new IP of the generation, and they are both always online. No one who is opting into a streaming service cares that you need to be connected, the sameway no one playing multiplayer does.

I think that the tech is very young atm, but it is getting better, and I'm sure there will be ways to get around some of the inheret issue as early as 5 years from now, which is when streaming is actually expected to take off on a grander scale. The biggest issue is for fighting games, where latency will instantly make the games unfun. You can bet your bottom dollar they are working on fixing that as we speak though. Progress will be made, as it always does.

we haven't got proper full blown live TV streaming over the Internet yet but you expect gaming to go all streaming in the next generation? 

the audience for TV isn't only significantly bigger on a scale of magnitude that is even silly to compare them but the tech required is also a lot easier to implement and no one has to worry about latency issues. Yet, we don't have it. But you expect taht gaming will go that way first.....

I believe that next gen, some games will be made available for streaming in the same way movies go from cinema to disc then to TV. But it will not (anytime soon) replace or become the primary means of game consumption. Just too many things wrong with it. 

I may be playing the devil's advocate here, but the amount of people gaming vs the amount of people that watch tv is astronomically different. Smaller focused networks could possibly get away with it (and probably do), but a network like Fox, or AMC. A far cry from what any of the 3 major gaming companies would need.