EA's Recent Press Conference at E3 paved a way to reveal yet another streaming service into the video game industry. Is the future of gaming in subscription and streaming services?
An independent UK developer says it’s been forced to announce and postpone its game on the same day, and lay off more than half of its staff, due to the sharp downturn in investment in the games industry.
The armadillo returns.
I personally do remember Infogrames in the years prior to merger. They really did have a portfolio that stuck out and I enjoyed. I wonder what value they see in reviving it now though?
The good old days of Driver and Stuntman. Unfortunately both games are long gone.
Meta writes: "Xbox and Meta teamed up last year to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) to Meta Quest, letting people play Xbox games on a large 2D virtual screen in mixed reality. Now, we’re working together again to create a limited-edition Meta Quest, inspired by Xbox."
That's a huge nay. As a gamer/collector that goes against everything. I enjoy having shelves filled with physical release. I currently have between playstation 1-4 some 650-to 700 games(no sports I don't keep those). There's a few gamecube, wii, wii u, and switch games sprinkled in there as well. I enjoy looking at my shelves when trying to find a game to play. I like the fact that when a online store fir whatever system shuts down for good I'll still have my physical copies since I retro game quite a bit.
A massive NAY.
Let's deal with Streaming first. My experience with it has been awful so far. I tried streaming my Xbox One to my PC, that was an awful experience, response times were terrible. I tried to use my trial for PSNow, again, it was an awful experience. I couldn't even get PSNow to load up a single game. I tried this on multiple connections on multiple devices, every time it was bad. The places i have seen it work still doesn't come close to being as good as regular gameplay. Streaming gameplay doesn't look anywhere near as good for a start. Picture quality is vastly inferior with streaming. You also need a constant strong connection without a single glitch, this is something that is very VERY unlikely to happen. Data caps are another serious issue. It's not something that i have an issue with with my connection, but that's just me, i'm not the whole world. Streaming gameplay will take up hundreds of gb in a few hours of gameplay, anybody with data caps are going to find themselves with a huge problem.
Now onto subscriptions. If EA are successful, this would just give the rest confidence to do the same thing. Imagine it, all game companies selling their games through a subscription........sounds awful to me. A subscription for EA, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Sega......you get my point. I like having all of my games in one place, i don't want a ton of subscriptions to play those games. Also, as somebody that plays mostly on pc now, i don't want a ton of different apps on my pc, it's just a load of bloatware.
Great for casuals, absolute sacrilege for any enthusiast.
"Streaming" compressed video over the internet with internet grade latency on controls to boot? No thanks.
This is to say nothing of having absolutely zero control of your library.
Servers down? Too bad.
Internet running crappy? Too bad.
Internet down completely? Too bad.
Want to play it 15 years later? Likely too bad.
Want to sell your game after playing? LOL
Hmmmml let me see, owning my games on disc or being a game renter forever.