Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
Case closed.
Who will win:
the combined market research and product management expertise of Microsoft, EA, Google, Sony, and Nvidia's cloud gaming departments
~vs~
two seconds of thought by one forumy boi
You do me a disservice Doc, I put quite a lot of thought into these things, and my opinion above is the result of that thought process. (I went into some detail in the original OnLive thread with my thought processes.) That's not to say my opinion won't be wrong, but it's certainly not the result of 'two seconds' of thought.
Plus, it's not like all of the companies on your list aren't capable of fucking up. Off the top of my head (and this is literally just off the top of my head):
Microsoft - Zune and Windows Phone
EA - Live service over-saturation BF5/Anthem for example
Google - Google+
Sony - VAIO/Bravia and retreat from mobile
Nvidia - Fermi (And Nvidia are flattered by brand loyalty and/or AMD's lack of competitiveness)
I don't think anything's fundamentally changed since OnLive, this is a niche proposition, it's an answer to a question that no one's really asking, it requires super-fast always-on internet, it requires hardware of some description and a screen (y'know, like a console or a PC does), and who is it for?
Keen gamers will still want their consoles and their PCs in their own little games den, casual gamers are just dicking around on their phones and tablets and will continue to do so.
Plus most internet connections are shared, and it only takes one person in the household to hammer an upload or a download and saturate the connection for everything else to go to shit for a time, something which games are going to be incredibly intolerant of.
I did all this in the original OnLive thread, I don't think much has changed, I think this will fail. I'm a fucking massive videogames geek and this is of zero interest to me and everyone I can think of. Ahhh but it's not aimed at you, comes the answer, to which the reply is, those other people will just carry on playing Candy Crush or whatever on their phones.