Close your purses for another month because we don't need your thanks or your change, just lend us your lug 'oles. Freeplay this month delves into another couple of games that you can latch onto and keep for nothing! So sit back, enjoy being frugal and listen to us talk about Cloud (introduced by thatgamecompany's Kellee Santiago), Shift and narrative in games.
Shaz from GL writes: Netflix are going to start beta-testing their new cloud gaming technology. Could they potentially be what Stadia couldn’t and compete with Xbox?
Newzoo's latest report indicates that the cloud gaming market will continue to steadily grow thanks to growing emerging markets and other factors.
That is assuming it improves to where it needs to be from a lag, resolution, and framerate perspective.
Company behind Shadow service has also been placed in receivership in France, claims it is a "victim of its own success"
Cloud gaming just isn't ready yet. The people around the world with expendable income would rather own their platforms than pay for a cloud service currently. Everyone is trying to go for the cellphone gamer, but the cellphone gamer is playing Candy Crush, Clash Royale, mobile RPGs etc..., not Halo, COD, God of War.
And they're doing it on cellphones which are significantly closer to a necessity than a console or PC, out of convenience (since they have their phone with them close to 90% of the time), because their mobile network is often better than their home internet, and because the content they play is overwhelmingly geared towards free to play.
Yeah, cloud gaming and VR and in the same boat. I wouldn't expect either to be mainstream for a very long time.
