| Intrinsic said: 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. |
What makes you think people are going to care about not streaming at 4K 60fps. People will be fine with 1080p 30fps for 90% of games, and that is an astronomically cheaper and more realistic endevor when given the same parameters.
As for data caps, if there will be anything that will push govenment intervention in ending them, it'll be game streaming. Data doesn't cost more money to maintain the more its used, so data caps are literally an unethical business practice, and it halts technological progression. Once a big financial player comes with demand for a product that needs unlimited data to thrive, data caps will be a thing of the past. That financial player is Sony, and if data caps don't go in like 5 years, there will be lawsuits, and Sony will either win them, or be accomedated, which will pave the way for Gamespy and the like to thrive.
