| Kyuu said: Once again, Michael Pachter is talking shit about Sony and praising cloud gaming. I might want to rethink my negative PS6 predictions, and I'm only half joking. |
I saw that thread on resetera too.
from there:
He bought 500,000 shares in Playtika early in the year.
Its since fallen from like 7$ a share, to 4$ a share.
Now hes pushing others to buy the stock,.... because "the future of streaming mobile gambling games is right around the corner".
You cannot make this sh*t up.
How long have we heard that game streaming is right around the corner to massive success and takeover of the industry?
10 years? longer?
Nevermind about internet bandwidth being wasted on this sh*t, the server upkeep and costs of running servers.... compression artifacts, lag ect ect.
Meanwhile Pachter thinks that this can work, with the f2p model?
Nah..... streaming is too expensive to give away for free.
You have to make people pay for it, the same was a subscription service is done.
Do you want to own a console that plays games?
or
Do you want to "rent" a console, and stream that over the internet, for probably a higher cost than buying a game console (over a console life cycle) ? (and deal with input lag, and compression and worse graphics?)
that is the question.
Its just not going to work anytime soon.
You know what I think much more likely?
Indie games getting more and more popular.... people realizing they don't need insane graphics.... and people just more and more so, playing on their phones.
