Streaming remove the biggest constraint from consoles and PCs:

- High price entry: Buying a machine to then play is the reason why console+PC gaming is nowhere near as popular as music or cinema, even though is a bigger market when it comes to revenue

As much people here turn down on streaming is the only feasible way I see for companies to keep making their single player AAA games. The only reason why movies budget kept increasing is because enough people was going to theaters to make them financially viable. 

Those games will need to sell for more people and seems we already close to reach the limit number of people willing to spend over 400 USD on dedicated hardware 

Multiplayer games are a different animal, they are interactive, easier to monetize and keep on market indefinitely until you recover your investment and provide a good income baseline for as long the publisher find worth it. Plus the interactive nature of such games make them more feasible to reach wider audiences thanks to good word of mouth

Also those games has much bigger shelves life. When FF XIV launched I'm sure an entry level PC couldn't play it. Today almost any PC can run it effortlessly, meaning the game was designed for high specs, but the natural course of time will naturally make it feasible for casual gamers who don't buy dedicated hardware

Which leads for the second biggest constraint of PCs/Consoles:

- No more need for upgrades. The game will launch and can reach a big userbase right of the bat

I don't see consoles disappearing, but I see at best 2 more generations (roughly 20 years) with consoles being the focus of manufacturers. Xbox is likely to be the first one to give up, which will lead Sony and Nintendo profits to go up enough to keep more generations going and provide a much more smooth transition to streaming. Hopefully internet will be good enough to not compromise experience as much as they do it today. 

Except streaming didn't increase budget of movies in cinema and it is disputed that it damaged cinemas. The type of content that is viable for cinema is different than streaming as well as streaming services isn't exactly the market you would see SP as main choice for content provider (you don't see netflix buf costing the same to make as End Game).

Except streaming didn't increase budget of movies in cinema and it is disputed that it damaged cinemas. The type of content that is viable for cinema is different than streaming as well as streaming services isn't exactly the market you would see SP as main choice for content provider (you don't see netflix buf costing the same to make as End Game).

Well, streaming increased the budget of many TV shows:

https://www.pricerunner.com/bo/most-expensive-tv-shows

I didn't imply the budget for movies increased with streaming. What I meant is movies budget kept increasing because there was enough people to make them profitable. This was possible because cinema has no entry-cost besides the ticket price. It's also important to add that cinema and TV make fairly different experiences, so they aren't direct replacements for each other. Which streaming is increasing is the budget for TV shows, which can now be released worldwide instead of a limited amount of channels, very often paid and behind a limited amount of viewers 

While for gaming, there is no option for playing AAA games without consoles or fancy PCs meaning we need a entry cost for start playing, once we reach the absolutely limit of the market (and we are closer and closer to that) willing to pay for dedicated hardware the budget of games won't be able increase anymore unless more customers are reach in some way. Multiplayer games can rely on PCs becoming cheaper with time to accumulate mind-blowing numbers with time, that's why they are not in jeopardy. But single player games don't. The only way to increase the pool of customers for a single-player without compromising their AAA status is to allow more people playing them, here streaming can provide a opportunity to increase sales and keep the budgets growing. 

Streaming remove the biggest constraint from consoles and PCs:

- High price entry: Buying a machine to then play is the reason why console+PC gaming is nowhere near as popular as music or cinema, even though is a bigger market when it comes to revenue

As much people here turn down on streaming is the only feasible way I see for companies to keep making their single player AAA games. The only reason why movies budget kept increasing is because enough people was going to theaters to make them financially viable. 

Those games will need to sell for more people and seems we already close to reach the limit number of people willing to spend over 400 USD on dedicated hardware 

Multiplayer games are a different animal, they are interactive, easier to monetize and keep on market indefinitely until you recover your investment and provide a good income baseline for as long the publisher find worth it. Plus the interactive nature of such games make them more feasible to reach wider audiences thanks to good word of mouth

Also those games has much bigger shelves life. When FF XIV launched I'm sure an entry level PC couldn't play it. Today almost any PC can run it effortlessly, meaning the game was designed for high specs, but the natural course of time will naturally make it feasible for casual gamers who don't buy dedicated hardware

Which leads for the second biggest constraint of PCs/Consoles:

- No more need for upgrades. The game will launch and can reach a big userbase right of the bat

I don't see consoles disappearing, but I see at best 2 more generations (roughly 20 years) with consoles being the focus of manufacturers. Xbox is likely to be the first one to give up, which will lead Sony and Nintendo profits to go up enough to keep more generations going and provide a much more smooth transition to streaming. Hopefully internet will be good enough to not compromise experience as much as they do it today. 

How on earth do you come to that conclusion?. Smaller budgets for console makers maybe. But for the game makers how would it make any difference if every gamer switched to PC and was still buying their game?. If 10 million users brought a game on PC is no different then if 10 million done the same on console.

How on eartth did PC exclusives such as Quake etc survive without consoles to subsidize them?.. Why are console makers moving their games to PC?. I think your getting a few things backward here.

Wow, So Sony games never go down in price or on sale?. Think about what you are saying. If every Sony gamer woke up tomorrow and got a PC the would be no difference to their buying habits. The ones that buy games on sales and when they are lower in price would still do that the ones that buy day 1 would still do that too. Unless your trying to tell me every Sony gamer pays 70$ for their games your post makes no sense.

Also the is no such thing as used sales on PC thats an even worse problem on consoles then piracy..

And im happy you admit consoles makers need PC to make more money since they can no longer do it on their own platform. All us PC gamers made the right choice from the start .

HAHAHA you make me weak with laughter. Talk about cherry picking news.

If PC wasnt important why would the big two MS and Sony be porting their games?. They need them PC sales clearly.

Like i said before and i will say again. PC is the future, One platfrom to own them all it makes great sense.

Thats the thing PC has never needed consoles. The devs that did need console and pc made them games weaker on PC and consoles compared to how they where when they where just on PC. So like i said PC never needed consoles but clearly console makers now need PC money no two ways around it.

Thats the thing PC has never needed consoles. The devs that did need console and pc made them games weaker on PC and consoles compared to how they where when they where just on PC. So like i said PC never needed consoles but clearly console makers now need PC money no two ways around it.