KLAMarine said:
HoloDust said:
It is convinience - once everything is streamed, you will have the same quality whether you're home or on the go. This is one of the reasons why I see streaming hitting hard in some not so distant future.
But it's not just that - I'm fairly certain that future streaming platform holders will use the same trick that's been used throughout the history of gaming to reel in the audience - flashy visuals not possible on previous platforms. It's just that this time they can sell you different visual packages depending on how much you pay, cause you'll be paying for server proccessing time, not for actual hardware itself.
This will provide you with the choice of having something that no standalone consumer hardware would be able to pull off, if you go with, let's say, Elite package, or you can go with some other more modest package suited to your needs and budget.
I can't say I'm too happy with this future, but given how much control this gives to platform and content holders, I'd say they'll do whatever it takes to persuade audience to convert to that.
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So what do you feel this could mean for the future of hardware's form factor?
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I remember seeing first concepts for phones with roll-out screens some 7-8 years ago - still waiting for them to actually show up, since the tech is still not quite there yet.
So I imagine something more or less like Switch (not that it's by any means the first tablet with controllers, but for the sake of discussion it's easier to refer to it since everyone knows how it looks), but without any actual processing hardware inside (other then for WiFi and similar stuff) and with roll-out screen tech - when you're home, you roll the screen in, when you're on the go and want to play, you roll it out.
