| LegitHyperbole said: Nah, I don't believe it. They simply can't make games like the way Netflix makes content, the reason Xbox needed to release on PS5. Sadya is not seeing the return. People keep saying it'll all be streaming too but unless we get flawless Internet infrastructure globally, make weather a non issue sort signal and have this all for an affordable price in the biggest markets where people are still dealing with 3g and data caps...nah. decades off. This might be the last physical gen (I still doubt it after the PS5 pro backlash and rush for disc drives) but it's def not even the penultimate last gen for choosing your games games singularly and buying them... or renting, leasing whatever it is we do to pay for them to be in our libraries. |
By 'streaming' I'm including services like Game Pass here since they're functionally the same, it doesn't need to be running on remote hardware per se. My bad, forgot to specify that one.
That being said, there are emerging ways to reduce latency massively with input prediction for actual game streaming (machine learning and statistics-based methods both), and these algorithms will only get better in that regard. Flawless internet won't be needed.
One might not think such a thing would work but rollback netcode, for instance, works wonders for online fighting games. It literally makes the whole thing viable as if it were local.
