| VAMatt said: When the tech is ready, it'll be great. I think it is a 100% certainty that streaming will become a large part of the gaming market. The only question is is the tech ready? So far, it seems like we're just a little bit short of where things need to be to make streaming a consistently great experience. So, I'm guessing we're about 5-8 years away from streaming becoming the most common way to play games. |
I've been thinking about this some overnight.....
I think that we'll see streaming really start to make a dent in the middle of the 9th gen. It will impact the way things at out in the second half of the generation, bigtime. By the time the 10th gen starts (or the time that the next gen would start, 6-7 years from now), we'll see streaming become the focus. If we get another generation of consoles, they'll be designed with streaming as a major focus. Or, this may be the last generation for consoles, at least as a primary gaming device.
Also, Sony and Nintendo better do something significant in the streaming arena very soon. Just staying still and hoping most people want to game in the traditional way really doesn't make sense. They at least need a decent streaming option, so that they're in that market if/when it takes off. Otherwise, they risk being left behind, and will have to be swallowed up by the giants (MS, Amazon, Google, maybe Apple or Samsung, etc.) to get the value out of their IP. They don't have to (and should not) abandon their current strategies, as those strategies are working. But, I'm concerned about their ability to compete against those gigantic companies, especially once those companies have a multiple year headstart.
