| bigtakilla said: 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. |
No.
If you have an internet connection, then you can have internet based live TV. Just like things like the PSvue or that other one that's also in beta. It works the same way it works now. A provider pays for content, you pay the provider for a subscription just that instead of getting a cable box, dish...etc. you just get an internet connection. To the end user, it's the same thing. you are streaming video. albeit live video.
The etch required to do that is a lot less than what will be required to have server farms of cpus and GPUs running 24/7 for 100s of millions of people worldwide to play 4k streams of games at 30-60fps. even if we lowball that number to say 100M that's still a ridiculous amount of hardware driving all that.
For live TV, they only have to worry about content distribution over the Internet and through a snappy interface. For game streaming, you are looking at content distribution and real time content creation.
lastly, the single most important thing about abgame console and games, is that in almost every part of the world you can just walk into a store somewhere and pick up a console take it home plug it to your TV and you are good to go. streaming games will never take hold until it's that easy to get a game running on a TV. everywhere. and let's not forget data caps.
