Do gamers really want Cloud gaming?

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d21lewis said:
As a little kid playing whatever I could for 25 cents a pop, I never cared about owning a game. I just wanted to play. As I got older and finally got an NES, I wanted to keep as many games as I could--even if they sucked. And I wanted to beat every single game I played before moving on to the next one.

As I got older and got my own money, I bought more and more games and machines each generation. Eventually owning more games than I could ever dream of beating.

Now, as I'm older, things have almost come full circle. I have my digital collection but all I care about is being able to play whatever I want to play. My collection of maybe thousands of games mean very little to me. On any given day, I look at decades of collecting and there's just nothing I want to play. I can see myself eventually giving streaming a go. One day.

Thank you for sharing this.

Collectors can get to a point where they don't care about collecting any more while most actually will never collect anyway. It's all about getting access to the game. The digital game that doesn't run after the server was shut down is a non issue for most people, due to the fact that they will never want to play that again.

For the collectors, I think the collecting marketing will never be shut down. There'll be always games on boxes for those who are into it. The same way that we still can collect CDs if we want (I wouldn't).