Never one to shy away from reasonably bold claims, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot reckons that the next console generation will be the last of its kind. Once it's done and dusted, Guillemot expects hardware to shift towards streaming services.
"I think we will see another generation, but there is a good chance that step-by-step we will see less and less hardware," the Ubi-boss stated in an interview with Variety. "With time, I think streaming will become more accessible to many players and make it not necessary to have big hardware at home [...] There will be one more console generation and then after that, we will be streaming, all of us."
Realistically, Guillemot's predictions probably aren't far off the mark. Sony's been tinkering with streaming for a number of years with services like PlayStation Now, and we're already well on our way to a totally digital future. We're not fully convinced that gaming will soon become completely dependent on streaming, but it's still an interesting topic, and one that's bound to be hotly debated over the next decade or so.
What do you make of Guillemot's words? Feel free to fear change in the comments section below.
[source variety.com, via gamesindustry.biz]
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Heard this before, not sure if it was from an older article of you guys or somewhere else. Either way, I'll miss my physical copies when it comes to that ☹️ but alas, one must move on with the times.
Maybe in the distant, distant future it could be mainline thing.
I hope it doesn't ever happen because my internet is too atrocious for streaming.
Saw the headline, clicked through, saw the name "Yves Guillemot", laughed, went back to pre-ordering physical copies of everything I'm interested in this year.
If ps5 comes around 2020-2021 and has a life cycle of 7-8 years then it means we are talking about 10 years from now. It's not that soon but I'm not sure that everyone is going to have internet connection good enough to stream 4k games with minimum lag
I will not stream games as it stands. Unless the infrastructure in my area is upgraded I doubt I'll be streaming games in the next ten or so years.
I'm not having that input lag; I don't care if it's 'playable'.
Guillemot is jumping the shark a bit though. Let's all get acclimated to digital first, then let's talk about streaming...
Steaming isn't going to happen for a few generations, there are still areas with poor internet connection that play video games locally. They'd lose a lot of market share.
They probably said that about the PS4 as well. I'm not convinced. Average user's internet (mine included) is nowhere near good enough.
Considering how often my internet seems to tank, I really hope this isn't anytime soon.
Yeah, it's gonna happen eventually, regardless of the person saying it, but it can't be this soon. There's still life in discs yet.
Yes and no, I think. I do believe PS5 might be the last gen in which consoles make numbers as big as they do now. I imagine that will be shaken up in the near future, though I also believe there will be a console gen after.
Pretty sure Yves said this before ps4 came out too.
I also think this suggests Ubi have early dev kits or at least have held discussions about what the next gen moght look like with the platform holders
then i guess the PS5 will be my last console then, yeah steaming can be a handy thing but i actually want some control over the games i buy, i want to be able to play them regardless of my internet status, i want to be able to sell games i no longer play or didn't like, i want to be able to give a game to a friend or family member for them to use if i'm not
plus what happens when the servers go down once the console has had it's day, it will just be a very big paperweight and you can say goodbye to any sort of legacy for future players too
streaming exclusively is one of the worst ideas in gaming to date, even worse than loot boxes and the day it happens is the day the gaming industry dies, the day we as consumers give away ALL control to the greedy companies that are already starting to run the industry into the ground
the day that they start to dictate to us where, when, what and how we play
Game treaming will continue to grow - see Resident Evil in Japan on Switch - but it's probably always going to be a generation of games behind so new consoles will continue to release for newer games.
It's going to be hard enough to download 80GB 4k games as it is, streaming 4k games isn't going to be any easier.
New hardware generations will probably all have streaming capabilities built in for older games, but like the short lived PSPgo streaming won't be the main focus.
Streaming may become the norm, but not until PS9 or PS10. Sony needs to go the Switch hybrid route first w/ PS6 or PS7, then all digital w/ PS8, then streaming. So 20 years from now at least. Over 12G cell towers.
I'm pretty sure similar statements were made 5 years ago as well. Consumers will decide how long traditional consoles go.
Not relient whatsoever on opinion based on assumption, this will rely on when the vast majority of your market has access to decent internet.
Streaming only, not going to happen anytime soon. Digital only consoles, yes. I could see going to an entirely digital download system with zero physical media being offered happening soon. Maybe not PS5, but PS6 perhaps. Maybe next gen Sony dabbles in the idea and offers a PS5 sans bluray drive along side their typical offering.
Can he predict next week's lottery numbers as well?
This is a recurrent topic. Consoles/home computers for gaming have 40 years with us and I don't see them going nowhere in the upcoming years. Maybe in 15 / 20 years, but... It's like saying "Non VR gaming will disappear after 2025", it's likely to have a very broad adoption of VR but non VR will be a need for many type of games and markets. I think the same for physical gaming devices.
To be fair, he's probably looking ten years into the future here. I'm playing devil's advocate a bit, but I never thought I'd stream all my TV and movies ten years ago. And yet I do.
Compressed image and extra lag doesn't sound tempting
@get2sammyb yeah but that's a different beast to a game, a HD movie can be streamed on a 3MB download speed, you can't stream a game with those kind of speeds
TV, Movie and Music streaming don't really require much bandwidth really where as games, you can't even use PSNow if your speed is less then 20mb/sec and those games aint even as big as current gen games
@FullbringIchigo I agree, and like I say I am playing devil's advocate. But PS Now is already pretty good in 2018... If we assume things keep improving and Internet infrastructure gets better over the next ten years (two things which are likely) then... It's not massively unfathomable.
But I also doubt it's going to work out. Not yet anyway.
So stupid: a) only a fraction of gamers worldwide could use due to connection speed b) the input lag makes a lot of games unplayable c) good luck streaming VR with 90 or 120 FPS. I can't hear this nonsense anymore. I have glass fibre and even with that connection I have an input lag that makes jump and runs unplayable in streams. Can't imagine this can be fixed. And even if everything works out. Imagine the workstation centers needed if 10.000.000 people want to play at the same time? Absurd. You would see the sign: Too many players want to play this game, sorry
@get2sammyb it's not unfathomable no BUT the main issue is the fact it takes all control out of our hands, we would have no control over what games we can play or for how long, they could be taken away at any time on the whim of a publisher just because it's not making as much money as they want it to
yeah i can see them going digital by the time the PS6 is released but not exclusively streaming, perhaps both digital purchases and streaming but not one or the other
He only says this as Ubi want to push the games as a service thing anyway, along with EA.
Besides after The Division and others, Ubi should concentrate on making a full game at launch, better walk before you can run...
@FullbringIchigo that's right, I do have the same "feeling" about it. Even today, for instance you cannot play PES 2017 online anymore just because the publisher has shutdown the servers or whatever. Right now you can fire up your NES or PS one or whatever and play your games as you wish. If all was streamed, good luck with that.
What would such a future mean for smaller games or games that "fail". Would publishers bother keeping the expensive servers open and maintaining other necessary hardware for games that fail to make a large enough impact? We could lose access to large numbers of games if they are not deemed commercially viable, and that is a scary proposition for the hobbyist gamer. Not to mention other commercial considerations. Would there be a subscription model per publisher? Per game? Gaming could well end up being more expensive than ever for the end consumer. I also think it could force out all but the biggest publishers and make development even more risk averse than it is now. At the moment streaming is done on a very small scale, but to ramp it up to a capacity suitable for millions of people (potentially at once, depending on the title) would surely be an immense and horrifically expensive undertaking.
Then there's the quality of internet speeds and physical connections. I'm very lucky to have fast internet, but even that drops and lags sometimes. Throughout the UK alone many people do not have access to super fast broadband and the government has consistently failed in its promise to expand fibre so that everyone has access. It is also unfortunate that depending on how far you live from the fibre cabinet on the street (as most fibre in the UK is not direct to the premises, instead relying on ancient copper wiring for the last leg to your home), you may have a woefully inadequate connection. Are we to really believe that even ten years from now the situation will have improved enough? Bearing in mind this will be a time when 4K if not 8K will be the standard across the board. If the answer is no then console manufacturers will be willfully limiting their own market.
Remember they would want this because they are now doing an EA and are trying to create a live service and this would more than benefit the publisher more. As soon as this happens I'll stop buying consoles because all it takes to end the title and it's gone no refund and you'll be renting the title instead of owning the disc
The day that happens is the day I stop playing video games! If I can't own my games and play them whenever I want without a server then I want no part of it. Ubisoft, EA, Activision Blizzard, Bungie, WB, Square Enix can go stream their games as much a they want because I don't buy their games anyway.
If they stop disc and have only download I stop playing xbox PlayStation and Nintendo lot friend will stop playing games as well r internet is not good some times .I love my game disc from game shop ballymena uk best and friendly helpful people and so helpful download b bad I like owning games and lend to friend and family r selling them if download happy I am out for good lot people stop to hate download game worst thing happying to games thank u and xbox Nintendo fan but like PlayStation 2 all best thank u for reading happy games people ☺
@Neolit yeah that too and as you pointed out, there is more than one issue that needs to be addressed before streaming becomes the norm for gaming
another issue is cost, just how would it be done, will Sony (in this case) run the streaming service with publishers putting games on it so it's only one you have to pay for or will each publisher have their own service will it be like a Netflix, Now TV and Amazon Prime thing where you have to pay a separate subscription to each one, that would cost a lot of money each year, especially on top of your internet bill and you will probably still need to pay for PS+ in that case too
if each was £50 and you subbed to say Ubisoft, EA, Sqaure Enix and Sony that would be £200 a year, just to play games and that is only for 4 publishers, what if you added more, it could end up being thousands of pounds each year
No thanks, I rather buy the game once rather than streaming it.
I hope not!! It would be a mistake to limit the functionality and features as well as 'force' people to buy digital rather than give them a choice. Books, Movies, Mucic etc are still bought physically by millions every year and whilst digital may be the most common in some areas, its not the ONLY option.
Devs/Publishers may want it for pure 'greed' - no 2nd hand market that way ad so have total control, the monopoly etc. Its NOT consumer friendly at all to go that route!!!
where will u stream games? what hardware? I don't see sony or nintendo dropping consoles to stream on hardware they don't own.
I'll just pop into my flying car....
... I think he's just spoofing... something to talk about...no chance of that for another 10 to 15 years...
@BAMozzy Unless some multi-hundred-billion dollar, international effort to improve internet infrastructure worldwide is secretly underway, this won't happen. And if anyone tries it, they're going to crash and fall. Hard.
The people making these sorts of statements live in a bubble. The techno-utopianism of the super rich doesn't really reflect the needs of the outside world.
A friend of mine has reasonably fast internet and signed up for the PS Now free trial. He says the image quality is garbage.
Streaming will always involve compression, and compression degrades image quality. I've got 100Mbps broadband, which gives me an average of 70Mbps down-stream speeds, and even with that, contention sometimes results in Netflix picture quality degrading badly, even if only for a second or two. That would be completely unacceptable whilst playing a game; imagine trying to line up a long-range headshot in an FPS and your picture suddenly turns to a blurry soup.
This claim is nonsense, and with any luck, the actual hardware makers will realise as much. I think streaming will be an unworkable solution for many gamers for many years yet, and if the issue is forced, we could well see the industry lose a HUGE chunk of its customers.
If the future of gaming is PC and mobile only with streaming, I will leave gaming. Maybe I will be a retro gamer then...
He's wrong, it's at least two. He's not taking into account the second hand economy which is HUGE. And by and large unaccounted for.
No matter how powerful the back end becomes, no matter how much bandwidth home broadband can handle, there'll always be the impassable speed of light to account for and without a server on every street, you're always going to have input lag.
The pro-streaming prophets always look forward to better broadband to alleviate their compression problems, conveniently forgetting to account for resolution increases in the same time period.
Please stop banging the square peg of streaming into the round hole of gaming!
@Ralizah I know! I have been around long enough to know how the world works! Go back and look at the book stores that publishers wanted to close down because they were selling 2nd hand books but contravened consumer rights. Vinyl records are still very popular too - after a decline with CD's and MP3's came along but now popular. Even with the likes of Netflix and on-demand movies, you can still buy 'DVD's' let alone Bluray and 4k HDR Blurays too. Digital doesn't eliminate or replace these other media but gives consumers the choice - an 'extra' method of accessing the content. There are still MANY that will want to buy Physical copies - whether that's Books, Music, Movies or Games.
Look at the backlash to Sony not putting in a 4k Bluray player to the Pro. Maybe not a 'major' backlash - but still seen as a 'negative' aspect and 'limits' the functionality and feature set of the hardware. There are people that bought an Xbox One S just because its a 4k HDR Bluray player too and the fact it plays games as well is a 'bonus' for them. All the major manufacturers are still making Bluray players - maybe not DVD or standard Blurays so much because the 4k HDR Players will still play those anyway. Its similar for TV's that are pretty much all 4k nowadays because they play ALL resolutions. Anyway that's a bit off topic - the point is we are still getting physical media. Steam's streaming console wasn't overly successful...
@Constable_What that's not what jumping the shark means.
The Fonz must be turning in his grave.
I have a feeling publishers and the hardware manufacturers want this to happen more than the consumer.
With all digital they get complete control over pricing etc and make more profit per sale. They want it but does the mass market?
@BowTiesAreCool This is another reason why they want all streaming, it will eradicate the 2nd hand market completely and increase sales through their online stores in return.
They've been slowly sneaking these kind of practices into this generation with GAAS,digital downloads,online only titles, no single player or its an afterthought, day one patches that you need for the disc to even function! (COD WW2). It's sickened me to the extent that I avoid any title like that like the plague. Believe it or not "WE" asked for this by buying this crap especially this generation on console. This is part of the reason I went back to beef up my retro collection consoles. At least I OWN that stuff....
@JoeBlogs "why on earth do you think Sony needs to go the hybrid route"
History. At some point you just won't need a home console when you can fit one in your pocket, or on your wrist, or in your glasses frame. It's not a matter of need, it's a matter of "Why make something big when you can make something portable and small?"
1 main reason a PS4 is so big is the disc drive and the HDD for storage. Take those 2 away, sell all your games on SD cards and use similar storage and there's no reason to have a console that big. And if your console doesn't need to be that big why make it that big? And if you can fit it all in your pocket why not put a screen on it?
Battery life is a big problem right now, but that too will be solved some day I'm sure. 20 years from now there will be no reason to have a big box when you can have Vita in your hand that sends out a HDMI signal wirelessly to your projection screen tv.
Technology will not stop and miniaturization will not stop. Your grand kids will be walking around a museum looking at old home consoles the way we walk around looking at old horse drawn carriages today.
can't see it happening, even by 2028, to be honest. streaming movies and games are entirely different beasts. movies are buffered, and can generally withstand temporary dips in bandwidth. your latency tanks at an inopportune moment playing a game and it feels like it's completely unresponsive. playing a game streamed will simply never be as responsive as it is natively, especially if by the next decade, 90 or 120fps is the target. 120fps is a frame every 8ms or so, so if your latency to the data centre is 100ms, that's 12 frames lag even before adding in the latency of controllers/screens. games on ps now are 30fps (or sometimes less), so it'd be minimum 3 frames of lag. playable, but far from ideal.
i already have subscriptions to netflix and amazon prime, which is more than enough for me. i don't have sky/bt, a phone contract, spotify, or any of the other hundreds of services that require subscriptions. i have doubts over how the industry could afford to develop the big AAA single-player games in a streamed subscription service model. i think anybody would be mad to pay £50/$60 to play Horizon: Zero Dawn 4 only at convenience/reliability of a service.
And on that day I will slowly back away from modern gaming.
LATENCY, people!
There will ALWAYS be some latency.
This is not a good way to make games.
More importantly... There are money making reasons that they want it this way.
The moment it is 100% streamed we return to the ils of television.
The scenario of contract membership, premium toll payed content, periodical strategic ads (and sometimes that strategy is to interupt or anoy)
Please. Lets not fix that which we never felt was broken in the first place.
Good luck with that Ubisoft.
Whoever launches the first "streaming only" console will be the first to flop like a dead fish. "Yves Guillemot reckons".. indeed. Yves Guillemot has about as much credibility in psychic predictions as my right shoe. People LOVE strong hardware pushing out visually impressive games, they don't love tiny boxes streaming games. It'll never happen.
Yep an all digital future just like with film and music! Oh no wait a minute all those mediums are still available physically.
Pass, hard pass....
Until the day all PC/smart deviced games are streamed (without any installation) I can't see PS6 being the only streamimg game device.
Don't tell the consumer what they want. They will tell you what they want.
yawn heard it all before
Because Microconsoles are so successful!
Can not wait for streaming to take over. I already use PC cloud gaming and it works like a dream.
Now we just need a commercial were a publisher (not ubisoft) hand a consumer a physical game and watch that publisher reel in the accolades.
didnt this moron say this when ps3 and 360 came out. Then the same moron started beating that they werent releasing xbox one and ps4. ffffffffffffffffffffffffffff muppet. try make a game that isnt cut and paste from the last rubbish you made.
I've been talking about this for years, I'm a huge fan of futurism, and services are the way to go for everything that is possible, it makes way more accessible to everyone and makes more sense.
Looking to our music today it's easy to get a glimpse.
We pay for a subscription that gives us access to millions of albums, before we had to buy a CD with 14 songs for a price way higher than a subscription fee.
Movies followed the same path and it won't be long for games to follow too.
The biggest barrier are people notions of property, and I know that this is delicate but it's something that needs to be further discussed by everyone, not only a tiny niche.
@Ps4_all_the_way this is not entirely true, nowadays companies usually creates necessities for consumers, in truth, they've been doing this since the invention of cigarettes or even before.
@VRDart
Don't know about that. You are in favour, but I know I wouldn't be in favour. I might play one console for a week even less then switch to a different console. Subscription to a streaming service would be very bad value for me. There's only so many hours in the day and I usually only play one or two games at a time and only for an hour a day if even. It'll work side by side with buying games physical. I wouldn't suggest ramming it down gamers necks with no other options. Look what happened M$ when they tried to get rid of second hand games.
Unisoft are probably in favour because they think it'd increase their earnings. I don't own one ubisoft game and I don't feel the urge to buy any of their games. If it were the only option, id be out. I mean that 100%
I love these sort of statements! I mean 100% of the time, they totally ignored the fact that we, who lives in 3rd world countries, even exists. Although my internet connection is alright, its not that stable and has a quota so streaming HD is kinda not ideal.
I'm not interested in streaming games ever. Digital downloads yes, but that's already a thing.
@Tsurii A generation usually lasts 6-7 years. That would mean we would be talking about 2025-2026 if the PS5 manages to release next year. A lot can happen
@VRDart Agreed. It's just a sooner or later thing. We can already easily stream older and simple games. The discussion/investment on streaming really comes down to triple-A high-budget productions or multiplayer action-competitive games, the tent-poles of the video game industry (for now ).
That Ubisoft boss better hope he is wrong and simply talking bullsh!t because if the console games industry goes total streaming over the internet, I'm out. No more gaming. No more Ubisoft game purchases. I will not suffer a downgrade just so devs can make more profit by doing less work. Sure, it makes economic sense. Just build the game once and simply stream it out to all compatible devices like a web page.
This is not like streaming movies, music or a web page. Interactive games require 100% accuracy with low latency or the gameplay turns to frustration. It's bad enough suffering latency in the hardware, but relying on the unreliable internet will simply kill the golden goose for me. It's a red line for sure.
Yes the internet will get better but games will also get more advanced with more instructions being passed back and forth, so the status quo never changes. Even fast connections suffer random dropouts due to traffic issues. If your ISP goes down for maintenance, you're left twiddling your thumbs. At present, if it goes down now, you just play a game instead. You have to be able to rely on something. All your eggs in one basket is asking for trouble.
Then you have ISP's throttling connections or charging for data transfers duo to excessive usage. All the cost of product distribution is passed onto the consumer without any price drop to compensate. Just look at digital game purchases on PSN. The game is a third more expensive and you get no disk or packaging, and they pay no delivery charges, and you pay to have the data transferred to your console. It's a scam. Some people are just stupid and don't see the con trick.
You cannot beat native local game code running on native local hardware, with the games running 100% perfect at the quality the hardware allows. A digital download is local game code so in theory that's OK, but they need to drop the price and stop ripping us off.
@Obake
Game streaming is OK as a low budget option for those that cannot afford the local native game code running on local native hardware, but if they force us all to adopt it then I'm finished with gaming. A lower quality gaming experience may be fine for you, that's your choice, but you do not speak for everyone.
I think console gamers are living in a fantasy right now. They think because their console still reads a disc that the game must be on it. This simply isn't the case for most game released in recent years. Sure maybe part of the game is on that disc but not the whole thing. Game file sizes are getting retarded these days and are way past the capacity of bluray discs. The only thing that disc is good for is acting as a physical license to allow you to DOWNLOAD and play the actual title. So essentially we already are living in a digital only world. The next logical step is getting rid of physical hardware which becomes obsolete rapidly.
Streaming will be a thing, but as many have said not while the infrastructure isn't ready to accommodate it...
We are closer to having consoles release without disc drives, I would say. Streaming would come some time after that, and considering the way fans ate Microsoft alive at the beginning of this gen with their revolutionary "ideas", I don't even think we are that close to digital-only. I will fight against it for as long as I can, and stick with any platform that allows me to purchase and play my games. A day when you are in the middle of a campaign and wake up the next morning only to see the game has been taken down for "reasons" is a day that absolutely terrifies me.
The only way I’d ever accept streaming over digital/hard copies of games is if my ping was 1 MS on every single server I connected with and ZERO lag with no visual compression that could hamper graphical fidelity and gameplay fluidity.
I would like to see what PS6 looked like, but for PS5 to be the last one before streaming, never.
I never streamed any content, still don’t fully understand what streaming is. I watch blu rays and DVDs and play game discs and cartridges and some downloaded games. I know what download is but not streaming.
Looking at the service coverage map for the US only, shows how little thought was put into his statement. Not every household has access to high-speed broadband (or even average speed for that matter) and that's just in the US. What about the rest of the world? Ubisoft CEO has to stop dreaming of ways to increase profit margins and start thinking of how to make a great title that's not just a re-skin of previous games.
As seen by Anthem's complete collapse. I dare you to go completely digital, streaming or whatever you want to call it. I wouldn't buy EA's, Ubisoft's or Activision's stock if you threw in a hooker and Anthem with a offline mode! You see, just like liberals around the country they just don't get it. Trump whooped Hillary's a** because people were sick of stupidity and being forced fed idea's. Ask yourself this, why are they forcing digital? It's because it completely controls the game and tells all of you lazy a** gamers who can't get out for a midnight launch YOU DON'T OWN JACK S**T! If I was Gamestop, I'd STOP selling new consoles and buy used ones and sell them for $99 dollars. Gamestop wants to survive they need to make a power play. For now, I'd sell my games with steelbooks ONLY and give a premium for Pegi or European games. On a personal basis, I only buy european games on disk. man, that physical Dirt 2.0 DELUXE EDITION is sweeeeeet! So I dare ya' industry, put your games on a Roku style device and I'll be gone. By the way your companies are doing YOUR ALMOST GONE anyway. Rockstar, please buy these fledgling companies out and save my hobby!!
@Ps4_all_the_way totally agree
That what they said about ps4.guess what we stil here.
People want hardware and play games offline.
People want next gen. Ps6 will be 8K(ish)
Well I HATE the idea of streaming only. As an older gamer, I like my physical media. It makes me feel like I actually own something for the money I spent on it. With streaming I'll be paying mouth after mouth to play game's, but, I don't own anything. If for some reason I can't afford the service one month then I'm S.O.L. I can't play offline. With physical media I don't have to be online, I can play whenever I want.
Hmmm...streaming he said? He assumes that everybody will have internet. I would ignore this until we hear something official in the future FROM Sony, not some money grabbing CEO, or whatever he is in Ubisoft.
To me this guy sounds like he is saying we are going to be able to stream using our minds, I know there's tv and computers, but how can he expect us to stream without a game console, if thats our preference, I can't afford a good gaming computer, so my only way of streaming anything is my PS4 or Xbox.
Also the only access to internet that I have is by using my phone's wifi hotspot, don't have actual internet through a company like comcast.
@wiiware you mean you would rather buy the disc once rather than pay a monthly fee for several years.
That wont go down well, again the bright future. Give us your money and you get to own, absolutely nothing.
This crap again? 🙄
Well, Mr. Guillemot... if you're correct... and that's a big 'IF'... you can certainly kiss goodbye to at least one sale of your future games, and I'm sure there are many more like me.
With people drooling over ever-improving hardware and crisper, higher resolutions, what on earth makes you feel that people will be happy to step backwards to compressed video streams, potentially jaggy graphics, and unpredictably variable input/control lag?
It's bad enough dying in an online multi-player game because your input was delayed a few milliseconds due to your neighbour starting a film in 4K on Netflix. Imagine missing a crucial headshot in a single-player game because your 4K display suddenly went 8-bit for the same reason.
Let me be clear, as a gamer of 40+ years and an early adopter of most new technologies: I do not want streaming games.
I want a box under/beside my TV which gives me good visual fidelity, and not some compressed video stream. I want control without lag. But most importantly, I do not want to be dependent on a third party service in order to play my games.
I tolerate the release of insufficiently tested games which require numerous patches to fix, because for the most part the games still work in their original form. I might just tolerate a digital future without disc-based products. I have no interest in needing an internet connection in order to play my games.
It's not simply gaming hardware which needs to improve to make streaming a viable reality for most gamers - it's internet infrastructure itself. And ISPs move so slowly in upgrading their services that they could lose a race with a glacier.
No! we will go all digital First. that will last many years then streaming.
Physical games are still a big seller and very big at Christmas holidays. Streaming will replace digital sales but Physical console games will continue until sales of them drop to a very low percent of total sales.
Like most people, I don't believe that the infrastructure is anywhere near ready yet, even if the Sony and others want it to be. I live in a rural area and we must be 5 years + behind the curve with Broadband. Same with mobile tech, I don't even get 4G and 5G is about to be released. Streaming would leave a lot of gamers behind. Maybe in 10 years or so, would be ok.
@Deadlyblack 5G is coming, n1gga
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