Cloud Gaming to Dominate Industry in 10 years

Video game publishers are constantly trying to find new ways to put money in their pockets, whether its working against the used games market (i.e. Capcom applying the one-save game feature to "Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, and Sony's idea to limit online access for used gamers with the PSN Pass) or trying to eliminate piracy, which is what most of the entertainment industry is trying to do (Recording Industry Association of America for instance). In this case, it's the latter.

[xPhearR3dx]

lol angry birds is the most pirated game in china?! They're becoming more like Americans all the time!

[Pintheshadows]

They are still adamant that they are communists. Who are they trying to fool.

[nilamo]

meh lag will always exist. Don't want my singleplayer games to be plagued by lag.

[sinclaircrown]

I'm hoping lag will be a thing of the online gaming past by 2021.

We're talking 5th Playstation era by then.

[Tuxedo_Mask]

If it does I'll still have my "old" systems to play.

[VampiricDragon]

AND then it will get hacked and everyone will play games for free

[just_sayin]

What would they do if it got hacked

[Shackdaddy836]

They would shut it down for however long it would take them to fix the problem. So it would be like that whole PSN thing except worse.

[liquidhalos]

So in 10 years the entire gaming demographic will have high speed, stable and unlimited lines? Dont think so

[chaos-lockheart]

This will never happen unless its forced upon. Most people will always want physical. What happens if internet's goes out or low speeds.

[VampiricDragon]

around 80 percent of gamers in a recent study which went up

[chaos-lockheart]

internet speed will never go high unless someone comes out with a faster speeds that's cheaper then their competition, making the other go higher speed and less $$. but even if that's happens, like I said most people want the actual thing. Onlive can't even use the full potential of my 580 card.

[Pintheshadows]

Erm, I think if you asked N4G if they want Cloud gaming you'd get masking taped to a metaphorical lamp post.

I personally think it is a terrible idea.

[cervantes99]

In 10 years we will all have 4K HDTVs - I would like to see cloud gaming stream 4K resolution games at 30+ FPS - likely not going to happen.

[zero_gamer]

Mainframe gaming? No thank you.

[cervantes99]

Why is it that every technology in the future want's to take things away from us?

It's time to start a revolution :)

[silvacrest]

in 10 years? i could see that, lag should be gone, most people would have 1GB connections or at least 10mb fibre optic lines, even people living in remote areas should have at least broadband speeds

[just_looken]

ROFL 1 huge flaw will never go away YOU ARE 100% DEPENDANT ON YOUR ACCOUNT/INTERNET AND THERE SERVERS STAYING UP. Fuck this rental shit and fuck you 2 all the follows of this and drm f u sheep.

[SheenuTheLegend]

Then it will be the end of gaming
Plz dont even think about these kind of things
i wanna slap the man who said this right in the middle

[Awesome-Xanto]

OnLive is a glorified rental service, no thank you...

[Main_Street_Saint]

Only if they can make the online infrastructure faster with very few problems and even then I don't see it really taking off.