It is, and it doesn’t have the backlash stadia has. Google is massive, but stadia was a relatively small product that tried to starts already enshitified.
Amazon is creeping slowly with Luna, Sony has many games locked behind stream only (PS now).
Do you think they want to be the ones paying for the compute for the goodness of their hearts?
I didn’t know ps had streaming only games. Looking it up it seems to be specifically ps3 titles, which makes sense to me considering that the ps3 cell processor is notoriously hard to emulate.
Online only single player games are able to exist because most people have some sort of a connection all the time and they either don’t know or care that the game is connecting to internet when they play.
Cloud gaming is a noticeably worse experience and it has much stricter requirements. I think you underestimate the backlash there would be if the next cod just downloaded a streaming client.
I am concerned that a generation of gamers will sink thousands of dollars into streaming services, end up owning nothing and have a worse experience in the process. I don’t know how to prevent that other than giving people financial stability to make smart decisions.
This is absolutely the sentiment of executives, which is why it’s so hilarious to see the ‘friendslop’ genre becoming so popular with $20 games like Peak snatching their profits.
In my opinion the best possible version of our immediate future is going to look more like this. Execs fire their talent, and the talent memes them to death.
The industry is going to move towards stream only games very soon. Stadia failed because it was a small player that tried to early.
That’s one of the slippery slopes of always online SP. “If need to be always online anyway, why not just stream the game?”
Yeah only if cloud gaming was attempted by a big player like Microsoft, Sony, Google or Microsoft…
It is, and it doesn’t have the backlash stadia has. Google is massive, but stadia was a relatively small product that tried to starts already enshitified.
Amazon is creeping slowly with Luna, Sony has many games locked behind stream only (PS now). Do you think they want to be the ones paying for the compute for the goodness of their hearts?
I didn’t know ps had streaming only games. Looking it up it seems to be specifically ps3 titles, which makes sense to me considering that the ps3 cell processor is notoriously hard to emulate.
Online only single player games are able to exist because most people have some sort of a connection all the time and they either don’t know or care that the game is connecting to internet when they play.
Cloud gaming is a noticeably worse experience and it has much stricter requirements. I think you underestimate the backlash there would be if the next cod just downloaded a streaming client.
I am concerned that a generation of gamers will sink thousands of dollars into streaming services, end up owning nothing and have a worse experience in the process. I don’t know how to prevent that other than giving people financial stability to make smart decisions.
This is absolutely the sentiment of executives, which is why it’s so hilarious to see the ‘friendslop’ genre becoming so popular with $20 games like Peak snatching their profits.
In my opinion the best possible version of our immediate future is going to look more like this. Execs fire their talent, and the talent memes them to death.
I really hope so
Stadia failed because it’s a flawed concept. Latency is a real thing and running local will always be a better experience.