Why is Sony being left out of the Streaming Future Conversation? Why are we even having it?

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konnichiwa said:

forevercloud3000 said:

 

 

This is not to mention that I find the Stream only future of gaming to be very alarming issue. It seemingly is centered on less of what consumers WANT gaming to be and more on how developers can alter the landscape to benefit them. Streaming has taken hold of all other media formats because they are static, non intereactive mediums (Movies, music). A video game is constantly changing and shifts depending on who is playing it. A Stream only future sounds impossible for small fledgling developers and would pretty much kill the indie scene and we are back to AAA Publisher owning everything and suffering from extreme tunnel vision.

Are any of us really thinking this through? Discuss.

That's what people said about mobile gaming and now it it's huge and millions of people are playing even games like Fortnite/PUBG on it.  Same about digital games, ten years ago MS announced their first game Tomb Raider anniversary to also be digital available and we had hundreds of disscussions that gamers don't want it and now we are used that a huge chunk of sales are digital.

Fair enough I suppose. But let's look at digital as the only option store fronts...

 

The phone app markets have been completely arrested by large publishers and pushed Indies almost entirely out. Indies once thrived there and created new ideas but if you cannot make a free app and then Garner the advertisement space or attention to get people on your game you might as well not exist.

 

Physical format of PC has long since died, digital games rules there. Yet a study I saw not to long ago says a very small percentage of Steam market games are even profitable. Nothing sells unless it is discounted because Steam users have become accustomed to constant sales. Which means shrinking profit margins. And yet again...large publishers rule it now as they get all the visibility. 

 

If you you are not the type of multiplayer game with microtransactions to support yourself on app stores or PC then you seem to suffer from digital format only.

 

I think the options of digital or stream are beneficial...but dangerous if they become the only for anyone that isn't a large publisher.