Are we just going to keep testing Gaming-as-streaming until it somehow magically starts to print money? Don't get me wrong, Microsoft might be one of the most well-placed companies to offer a...
Are we just going to keep testing Gaming-as-streaming until it somehow magically starts to print money?
Don't get me wrong, Microsoft might be one of the most well-placed companies to offer a service like this. But I haven't even seen in-home streaming take off, let alone remote streaming. What has really changed in the past few years that this would suddenly be viable? I don't feel as if the majority of the US market suddenly has the internet connection to use this.
Game streaming is the holy grail of closed gaming services. It's essentially perfect DRM (no code leaves the server). They'll keep pushing this until connection quality can keep up. I'm looking at...
Game streaming is the holy grail of closed gaming services. It's essentially perfect DRM (no code leaves the server). They'll keep pushing this until connection quality can keep up. I'm looking at how it's used as the prime way to port AAA games to the Switch and I'm super nervous it might take over. The lag and compression artifacts are so ugly but it's the blackbox-DRM thing is what worries me the most. They'd have complete control over how and when to play the game, the next step would probably be timed subscriptions only.
Are we just going to keep testing Gaming-as-streaming until it somehow magically starts to print money?
Don't get me wrong, Microsoft might be one of the most well-placed companies to offer a service like this. But I haven't even seen in-home streaming take off, let alone remote streaming. What has really changed in the past few years that this would suddenly be viable? I don't feel as if the majority of the US market suddenly has the internet connection to use this.
Game streaming is the holy grail of closed gaming services. It's essentially perfect DRM (no code leaves the server). They'll keep pushing this until connection quality can keep up. I'm looking at how it's used as the prime way to port AAA games to the Switch and I'm super nervous it might take over. The lag and compression artifacts are so ugly but it's the blackbox-DRM thing is what worries me the most. They'd have complete control over how and when to play the game, the next step would probably be timed subscriptions only.