fatslob-:O said:
I think you might've missed the point I was trying to make ... My argument was not about how we can stop progress but it was about the possibility of progress stagnating or having no progress at all! My analogy would be is that consoles are like car engine technology where the latter has stopped progressing and that we know the former is going to reach that point one day ... My question is what will happen if we can't have new consoles anymore or there's no reason to make new consoles anymore ? (Generations or not would be trivially redundant in this case.) As for game streaming, I don't think it's ever going to take off since there's a cost associated with a middle man known as the game service streamer and it's most likely cheaper for both the platform provider and the customer for the former to push costs on the latter to buy the hardware instead since you get individual ownership of the platform (if you play a lot this is cheaper when you're billed on time basis with game service streaming), higher quality experience (lower input lag and better image quality) and no requirement of high speed internet ... (game streaming makes most sense for super casual gamers (plays less than 5 hours a month) so consoles are equally valid platforms as streaming boxes are if not then even more so) |
Fair enough.