maxleresistant said:
We won't have a choice. Manufacturers just want to get rid of the 399$ price of admission. They don't make money on the systems because they have to sell them for cheap. They make more money in the content they sell for the system. That's why they are constantly trying to get rid of it. One day they will find a way to do it. That's all I'm saying. I don't know when it will happen, but it will definitely happen |
You think they "gain" anything by moveing the cost away from the consumer, and instead placeing it on themselves?
Sure it ll be easier to get users, to "buy" the service, but the cost will be the same or higher for the console maker.
Why? because those 400$ consoles they sell you now, will have to mean they need to spend 400$ on server hardware capable of doing the same thing.
So reguardless the hardware will need to be "bought", and the main cost will still be on the console makers.
Also The upkeep in terms of elecrisity & cooling, maintence & workforce, drivers & software guys all goes up, thats not even accounting for how much more the data trafic of steaming a console experiance to millions of users will cost in data.
All that... and your struggleing with issues of input lag (server lag ect), compression of data (might mean image quality loss) ect.
I bet you that prices wont be 49$/year for one of these services either (which many people think is too high already).
I wouldnt be surprised if the yearly subscription costs tripple, to be able to support such a system.
Also I think people will band together and support the physical console, so the first to try this system (while killing their physical console), is the one to get bitten in the arse by it.
