| shikamaru317 said: Back in June, there was a leak about Google's gaming plans. If that leak was true, this was just the first of several major moves they are making in the near future:
In recent months, however, the chatter about Google has gotten louder. At the Game Developers Conference in March of this year, Google representatives met with several big video game companies to gauge interest in its streaming platform, which is code-named Yeti, sources said. (The existence of Google’s Yeti was first reported by the website The Information earlier this year.) Google also took meetings at E3 in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, those sources said, and from what we’ve heard, the company is looking not just to woo game developers to the Yeti service but to buy development studios entirely. (Google did not respond to a request for comment.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The leak was right about the streaming service. The leak may also be right about them planning to release their own console and building up their own 1st party by buying studios. We might just have 4 players next gen; Sony, MS, Nintendo, and Google. |
If Google joins then Apple will no doubt shortly enough. No way they let their main two competitors (Google and Microsoft) have this market war with Sony and Nintendo. We are probably going to go from 3 to 5 in a matter of a few years, and I doubt there will be many 3rd party studios left.
