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S.Peelman on 25 February 2020
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CuCabeludo said:
goopy20 said:

I already told you. IT's not a traditional console in the sense that they're not pushing next gen tech and try get to people to migrate asap. Instead they're making all their exclusives cross-gen for 2 years, effectively creating less incentive to leap in the next gen until the big 3rd party titles come out a couple years later. They know this isn't a good way to sell a ton of Series X's and push next gen gaming forward. But they don't care because they're aiming to reach 8 billion non-gamers through Xcloud on a ton of different devices. They're basically saying we don't need next gen consoles or pc anymore when we got the Cloud.

Neither Google nor Amazon has publicly announced plans to launch a game console, but both are positioned to compete directly with Microsoft’s Xbox when it comes to what Spencer sees as the next great expansion in gaming.

“Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world,” Spencer told Protocol. “Ultimately, that’s the goal.”

"Though game consoles like Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sell in the tens or, in the case of PS4, hundreds of millions, the real potential market for gaming, Spencer believes, is in the billions of people on Earth who don’t – or can’t – own a game console. "

https://www.businessinsider.nl/xbox-boss-says-xbox-now-competes-with-google-and-amazon-2020-2?international=true&r=US

People here are missing the bigger picture. There are tons of people out there that don't have a Gaming PC/Console but have good internet they use to watch Netflix and would be willing to play games on the cloud using their current potato machines if they get a good cost/benefit from it.

That's (in the quoted post) not a very intelligent quote. For one it ignores PC and mobile gaming, so the market is already bigger than the 100-200M console market. Secondly, those other 7.5B people in the world don't game because a) they don't like video games, or b) because they can't afford hardware and games or don't have the infrastructure required. If they don't game because they don't have the money they'll also won't have any money for a monthly subscription and whatever device they'll need (you'll need something) and worse pay full price for rentals on top. If they don't play it because they don't have the infrastructure then they'll need to call their governments first to improve the country they're living in, and that'll take awhile. If they don't game because they don't like it, which will by far be most people out there, then not even shoving tons of free stuff in their faces will get these people to play a video game.

Believe it or not, not everyone actually wants to play video games. I for one have only one (one) friend that actually games, and then he really only does one thing every once in a while. Saying the potential market for gaming is all the people in the world is a total pie in the sky. It's just not true. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are going to have to do with the couple hundred million people that are interested.

But then again, Spencer himself probably knows this, and he's just overemphasizing, believing that you must set lofty, even unattainable goals to move forward.