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Nem on 03 February 2013
pezus said:
curl-6 said:
S.Peelman said:
Cobretti2 said:
the day cloud gaming becomes the norm is the day i will quit. I like having my consoles and physical copies of games taking up so much space in my house lol.

You and me both.

That and the fact that I'm not going to allow myself to be reliant on the 'goodwill' of a company to keep something I like alive for an indefinite period of time.

Add me to the list. No way I'm trusting a company that could go under or otherwise mess with my games, to hell with that. I want to actually OWN my games, not just access to them, which could be taken away at any moment. Not to mention the waste of internet...

I don't think that could even possibly happen. Laws will prevent you ever losing your games, even if a company goes under.


No they wont. Because a product and a service arent the same thing. Cloud gaming is a service. You are paying for a service, when the service is no longer available you dont pay it anymore, but you dont have a right to the contents in it after it stops. You are paying for the ability to acess them temporarily.

Its the same thing as Xbox gold at the moment for example. Microsoft can bring down the servers any time they want for a certain game and you wont get any re-emburse for the lost ability to play online. Half the game is lost right there and no one gives it back to you.If its already like this why would you think it would be any different in the future? Iwata is right.



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radiantshadow92 on 03 February 2013

screw physical media i want everything on the cloud



Nem on 03 February 2013
radiantshadow92 said:
screw physical media i want everything on the cloud


I see you spend your money responsibly. xD



DanneSandin on 03 February 2013
KHlover said:
curl-6 said:
S.Peelman said:
Cobretti2 said:
the day cloud gaming becomes the norm is the day i will quit. I like having my consoles and physical copies of games taking up so much space in my house lol.

You and me both.

That and the fact that I'm not going to allow myself to be reliant on the 'goodwill' of a company to keep something I like alive for an indefinite period of time.

Add me to the list. No way I'm trusting a company that could go under or otherwise mess with my games, to hell with that. I want to actually OWN my games, not just access to them, which could be taken away at any moment. Not to mention the waste of internet...

Me too. Disks are nice^^

Mind adding me as well? Know why physical copies is da best? Because I can still pop in a game and play my NES even after 20 years. Try to do that with cloud gaming.



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DanneSandin on 03 February 2013
RolStoppable said:
I like these rare instances of sanity, they give me hope.

Mind explaining this statement? I'm just curious as to what you find sane in this and what Nintendo has done that is not sane. Just curious



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VGKing on 03 February 2013

I think he's referring to Cloud Gaming through a browser or tablet replacing home consoles.
He's right, THAT IS NOT THE FUTURE.

However Cloud Gaming is an important part of the future and home consoles themselves will be hubs for Cloud services.



Alby_da_Wolf on 03 February 2013

Iwata is right. Cloud is already good enough to replace servers at a lower cost and higher reliability, and it can probably also replace local mass storage, but it can't replace yet local computing power. Maybe speed can reach values high enough quite soon, but about real-time interactive applications like games, one word: latency.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 February 2013

Nintendo might change the way we play gaming when it comes to controllers and peripheral devices, but they do not lead when it comes to OS and memory and format. I don't think this is their place to talk.



Gnac on 03 February 2013

I can't wait until the console I use to play games is just as intangible as the software delivery format!

Because that is the future.



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theRepublic on 03 February 2013
kitler53 said:
KHlover said:
Turkish said:
Lol Iwata. He will eat those words once Gaikai can stream 1080p games on PS4. It will become a huge part of next gen.

He also said he didn't like the current online platforms or something, thats why WiiU lacks achieve/trophy system.

He will eat that words in 10yrs when more than like 5% of all households have a sufficent connection for FullHD streaming 

i just saw, in relation to the house of cards release, that 25% of americans already subscribe to netflix and the number is growing. clearly the market is responding to streaming based content.  this isn't 10 years out.  it's coming this holiday and in 3-4 years time it will be a big part of the gaming industry.  in 10 years it will probably be the dominant source of money for gaming.

How do you buffer a game?  You can't.  The infrasturcture is going to need to be a lot better.  As Milkyjoe already stated, this is also going to be a ton of data for ISPs to handle.  They already have caps and are throttling users.

Where did you get that 25% from?  I'm guessing straight from Netflix with round up like that (lol).  The latest Netflix financials (Q4 2012) have 27.15 million subscribers to streaming, but only 25.47 million of those are paying customers.  With 313.9 million Americans (2012), I am guessing they are talking households.  That is at 114.8 million (2011).  So 23.6% best case, or 22.2% paying.  Close I guess.

Anyway, my point is that streaming video and streaming a game where the user has input are two very different things.



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