| Chazore said: No, I don't see it effecting Switch's success. The Switch is a portable unit, primarily geared towards gaming, while mobile phones attached to the cloud are primarily designed around making calls, videos, texts and some general purpose apps, and then a small bit of gaming. The Switch has already proven that there's still a userbase to cater towards, and so far mobile gaming hasn't really butchered it, and so far neither has Stadia, so I don't see Amazon doing it either. My main concern is if Amazon does gain ground, and Stadia improves, then MS releases theirs, that we'll start seeing more competitors entering the ring. The last thing I want to see is more and more companies gearing up for pure cloud gaming, because I know normies will eventually just mass adopt that over time. Switch is fine for now, but I think if Cloud gaming really manages to take off proper in a few more yrs, then gaming as a whole is going to evolve to that end point; always online gaming rentals, a gamer's worst nightmare, and a publishers orgasmic wet, long lost dream. |
Smartphones have been used for a lot more than just taking calls/texting plus a little extra other stuff that for ages now, that's a very 2008-centric view of how phones are used.
MS has basically already launched their cloud service, you can play games on it right now, I just did 20 minutes ago, lol (Gears 5 and tried a bit of Streets Of Rage 4 on my Android phone).
It will be interesting to see what Sony does now, they do have their own service, but I don't think they can compete head to head with MS when MS has to full backing of their board of directors to spend, spend, spend. Bethesda is probably only the beginning, MS will purchase at least one more big time publisher, maybe even 2 or 3 more.
Microsoft being so aggressive in this field is a game changer, it would be one thing if they just had a streaming service as a side thing, but making Game Pass and letting people basically have several hundred games for only $10 a month including your full 1st/2nd party catalog available day and date (so new releases even) and to let that also be available to be streamed is really, really accelerating where this market probably was supposed to be.
