Microsoft is unhappy with the state of the Xbox (should Spencer be substituted?)

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SKMBlake said:

Trumpstyle said:

cloud gaming makes 0 sense whatsoever on mobile phones, very little sense in the console space

Well it is nice to have cloud versions of games that wouldn't be on the Switch, I bought half of them, I really enjoyed playing AAA games on a Switch Lite.

And also playing Ghost of Tsushima on my Steam Deck is really nice

I was talking about smartphone users using 5g playing over the cloud, I have no idea how you play but there was always be a niche.

It make no sense for the average smartphone user to adapt cloud gaming, because the only thing cloud has to offer them is better graphics. It's not worth all the issues the cloud gaming will bring them. But based on the article Svennoj linked it might not even bring better graphics. It's all cons, it cost more, will be unreliable and maybe even have worse graphics because of picture quality.

SvennoJ said:

For the hardcore gamer it's not good enough (here at least), but maybe you missed where it worked for him and where he said:


Netflix grew super fast when it was launched? Really?




Netflix didn't grow much at all in the beginning, being tied to PC. The ball started rolling after it came to consoles in 2008 and internet speeds became fast enough to support video streaming to more people. Also launching the first Roku stick in 2008, 11 years after Netflix started! Netflix didn't officially come to Canada until 2010, same time Smart TVs started to become the majority of new TVs.

I get it, I was arguing against Netflix and video streaming in 2007 when video download rentals appeared on consoles. It will never take over, it can never replace the video and sound quality of Blu-ray. No extras, no subtitle options, no alternate soundtracks, terrible for movie lovers. Internet bandwidth isn't there, takes 6 hours to download a 2 hour movie in crappy quality. And I had a 20GB monthly download cap at the time.

Startup is slow, but we're reaching a major tuning point as 5G coverage continues to increase as well as fiber to the home coverage.
We're about at 2007 in the Netflix timeline when it comes to xCloud. No streaming stick yet, just been rolling out to console (available in 28 countries today) and has been available through PC.

I meant their streaming service, it launched 2007. Their dvd service launched a lot earlier. And it's has nothing to do with hardcore vs casuals. When casuals tries cloud gaming on smartphones they will just close the gaming app because they will think the app is broken. And the increased speed from 5g won't help.