| Chrkeller said: I don't think, long term, he is wrong. I can see a future where new games arent for sale but streaming only. Probably 15 to 20 years out. |
Why would game developers take on the cost of server farms?
or turn to others to "only" have their games streamed ?
Why is that the future? what is the gain for them?
The game developers/publishers don't stand to gain anything doing things this way.
The only way it even makes sense for service providers, is if they can make more, hosting than selling hardware atm.
So the only way this pays off, is if "renting" your games to be played via stream, long term costs more than buying hardware does.
So while, it might be cheaper for the consumer, day1.... overtime it will likely screw them over (compared to the current system).
"Not quite the same thing, but Nintendo has their classics behind a subscription pay wall. It starts simple and overtime moves to this kind of setup. "
Which are not streamed over the internet.
You just pay to access them, month by month.
This is just nintendo not being happy with 1 buy and keep forever.... so they will sell you the games again and again on each new system, or make you pay to even access them, month by month. That's just greedy business practices, it has nothing to do with game streaming.
