Do you predict any company to cover Microsoft's place on console market ?

[HoloDust]

Davy said:

HoloDust said:

No.

I think GeForce Now is good example of how a lot of people will play in the future - your digital library streamed to you from rented server hardware. It combines having access and ownership of your library (Steam in this case, for the most part) on any other compatible device that you might have currently (or in the future) that runs those games locally, while providing you option to not have such a device, or not upgrade if you don't feel like it, by giving you server solution that is upgraded every 2 to 3 years.

That and lot of ARM handhelds that are running Steam, either natively or via translation layers.

I wonder what kind of games will need streaming.

I believe the opposite: because pc technology will stagnate at some point everyone will afford to buy a gaming pc. Moore's Law death is the future.

They cannot use supercomputers for playing games, we need them for more serious sectors like science, communications, national defense e.t.c.

I don't think we're quite there yet where there are actual games that require that level of compute power (what type of games and if it's economically viable option is, IMO, another topic altogether). I find that streaming is more about alternative way to play the games you own at visual settings you can't achieve at your home, whether it's about not wanting to upgrade your local gaming device, not having a need for powerful local gaming device, or something else.