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Can we please stop listening and quoting company CEOs. Haven’t we all learned how clueless they truly all are ?
Yea please. I keep saying it too. Wake up you fucking sheeple. Many folks who become CEOs are some of the worst of the worst cause that is the only way you get there. A CEO only says things that make them money.
Clueless or not, zelnick is in the position to attempt to make this happen. Sony seems to be on board with them, and I bet microsoft is salivating at the thought as well.
No we fucking wont. But i might only play indie games by then
The tech bros like him, Bezos, Huang, and all those other tech fascists are working extra hard to make sure we don't have the software or hardware to buy in order to play or do anything independently.
They're not gonna make it! I think its just a matter of how much mess they make before they fail.
No the hell I fucking won't.
no
People will already pay 500€ extra to shave 2ms off their display delay. Absolutely no way they will accept the input delay of streaming games.
How many times does cloud gaming need to fail before these corporate stooges give up on it
It can, should and hopefully will fail forever, but it only has to succeed once. Telecom companies unwillingness to invest in new infrastructure might actually be our saving grace, because I don’t see cloud gaming ever gaining critical mass without most people having reliable and cheap access to fiber internet.
At this point it doesn't even have to succeed, just be the only choice as the tech fascists kill the ability to buy hardware and software.
Thats what I'm worried about
I'll go back to playing NES roms before I pay for game streaming
Motherfucker, I don't buy your games at all.
Lmao no we won't.
They'll be force-feeding streaming soon enough. I'm fully convinced they're gonna push streaming hard as soon as the AI bubble bursts, just so they can justify building all those data centers.
Microsoft can't even justify an online subsciption service for $30/month. They already bacled down that price. And I don't think we need to talk much about Stadia who tried the "pay $60 to stream a game" model.
No way in high hell this takes off. The economics aren't there and the competition is too strong. Not to mention I don't think the internet infrastructure is quite ready for that kind of mass streaming anyway.
Who is “they”? Major game publishers? How will they convince 80 different indie publishers to stop publishing locally run games?
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Those AI datacenters are pretty much single use. If you want to use them for anything else, you need to strip out everything down to the concrete and power leads, and install a new set of equipment.
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as soon as the AI bubble bursts
We've been saying that for a long time now. Still going strong, even though I would personally love to see it burst and we can get back to normal.
The market can stay irrational, yadda yadda. Also, Nvidia and Microsoft know they're the major pillars of the bubble (M$ being the single largest backer of OpenAI) ones that have the most to lose, so they have to keep the illusion going to keep their stocks from nosediving and, more importantly, to keep lawyers and prosecutors off their backs.
At this point, I'm convinced that if you think this stuff, you are not a real gamer and are fundamentally hostile to the gaming community, and/or a complete imbecile.
Yeah, been hearing that shit since OnLive. 15 years later and cloud gaming is still niche. Throw that prediction together with "we'll have super AI by 2030". Neither Nvidia's Geforce NOW or Xbox Cloud Gaming have open financial reports, being thrown together under other umbrellas. Google didn't have the foresight to see that cloud gaming wasn't "the next big thing", but at least it was a project that surprised no one when they announced it was being killed.
The only reason to think "we'll all be streaming games" in 3 years is because nobody will be able to buy electronics due to AI shitting the RAM market. The more likely result is more people making do with what they have and less games aiming for 300GB install size and 16GB minimum VRAM
AAA gaming is full of execs who have not grasped how their industry has already begun imploding. The survivors in the all digital potato PC world will be the indie devs and Steam since Steam sells their games. The indie game devs write their games to run on anything. The other survivor will be the free to play studios who have already won every market they've entered. If they don't own a gaming market yet its because they haven't bothered winning it. Look at active player counts. Franchises like Battlefield and Call of Duty are way down the charts from the free to play shooter games.
Franchises like Battlefield and Call of Duty are way down the charts from the free to play shooter games.
I think a big part of that is they are usually monetized the same (or even more aggressively) as the free to play games, but you also have to pay $60 up front every couple of years to keep playing because they come out with a new one (nuking any community they previously had built, further fracturing their community). It's like they watch other games make bank on a concept and monetization system and think they can do the same thing, but they only copy the bad parts and then wonder why it doesn't make them billions in a just a couple years.
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I mean... I won't.
My backlog is already bigger than I'll ever get through. I'll live without new stuff.
Because this kind of thinking went so well for Ubisoft.
Don't forget the great success of Google Stadia!
Heard that before lol
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as if lol. even if compute gets cheap (seems like not), installing high speed internet all over the world? that's a huge project that nobody is working on.
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From my PC to my steam deck, sure.
This is a literal fantasy that could only be believed by someone who hasn't had dogshit internet access in far too long and doesn't play games.
And nothing of value would be lost… It's maybe just me, but the last thing take-two (or rockstar) made, which was good, was Vice City.
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Yea good luck with that. Especially in the US. Internet infrastructure is way behind here in a lot of areas. Some people still use dial up for fucks sake.
Not to mention latency, or god forbid the internet goes down and you can't play games at all. Yea no thanks dumbass.
Some might. I will be playing an instrument or reading instead. I'm out.
Yeah this is their goal. Subscription everything. Also they don’t want gpus in your hands and we will see them more regulated than assault weapons - or some sort of gentleman’s agreement where they are generally unavailable to the public. Writing is on the wall because if you can run quality ai locally the powers that be suddenly lose a trillion or two overnight.
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The speed of light will still be in effect on three years, so we’ll all be watching streamers who built their PC before the rampocalypse play the latest games that we’ll never be able to afford.
Well Strauss Rockstar can stream the poop from my butt
Bet. Pirates will find a way to get around whatever draconian anti-consumer shit they come up with.
By hook or by crook I will be running everything locally in three years. I'll hodge podge some workable gpu to give me a PC and LLM.
Or maybe fewer of us will game, of course. If you kill quality you kill your customer base.
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