fuck that noise, I'll play ROMs of SNES for the rest of my life if it comes to it. idgaf. never giving in to cloud based bullshit ever

AAA cattle will be streaming their games in 3 years. FTFY

If a game requires internet to play I don't pay!

I had a GeForce Now Founder account but finally let it lapse as the price kept going up. I also bought into Google Stadia and it was great technology wise.

I don't see cloud gaming as a bad thing as a backup, or when you're on the road.

However, like everything these days, the fuckers will just keep jacking up the price to squeeze every penny out of the market. Or lock it down so you have to buy from their store.

This is the real problem. The technology is capable and we could have nice things but these assholes will just ruin it so fuck 'em.

They can kiss my hairy ass, not on the left, not on the right, but right in the middle. I'll play the 40 plus years of games I've already amassed over and over instead. Hell I'll even make myself ai slop choose your own adventure books before I spend one cent on streaming only anything.

Are they implying that in 3 years they'll have upgraded my internet AND put servers in every single city, not just capitals so stream this?

I'm not accepting 100ms of latency, ever.

Can we please stop listening and quoting company CEOs. Haven’t we all learned how clueless they truly all are ?

lmao, good fucking luck realizing this without massive expenditures in infrastructure. In the US, internet is basically shit everywhere i've ever lived, I've never been able to even stream from my own PC to my phone without the experience being excruciating and unplayable on anything that wasn't turn based.

If he only offers streaming, he'll just leave a gap for indies who actually deliver.

I have enough unplayed and uncompleted games in my Steam account to last until the end of the universe.

I won't be streaming games in three years.

Motherfucker, I don't buy your games at all.

no

as if lol. even if compute gets cheap (seems like not), installing high speed internet all over the world? that's a huge project that nobody is working on.

People will already pay 500€ extra to shave 2ms off their display delay. Absolutely no way they will accept the input delay of streaming games.

I'll go back to playing NES roms before I pay for game streaming

No the hell I fucking won't.

They'll be force-feeding streaming soon enough. I'm fully convinced they're gonna push streaming hard as soon as the AI bubble bursts, just so they can justify building all those data centers.

No we fucking wont. But i might only play indie games by then

Ah, yet another rephrasing of "You'll own nothing."

Does that mean they're going to break into my house and delete all the local games, compilers and interpreters off my computer? Because unless they're doing that, this is just factually incorrect.

How many times does cloud gaming need to fail before these corporate stooges give up on it

"Dale, if I'm streaming my games in the future, I'm gonna kick your ass."

Take-Two CEP says [he hopes that] we’ll all be streaming our games in 3 years

He doesn’t know shit, he can’t do shit

Yeah, been hearing that shit since OnLive. 15 years later and cloud gaming is still niche. Throw that prediction together with "we'll have super AI by 2030". Neither Nvidia's Geforce NOW or Xbox Cloud Gaming have open financial reports, being thrown together under other umbrellas. Google didn't have the foresight to see that cloud gaming wasn't "the next big thing", but at least it was a project that surprised no one when they announced it was being killed.

The only reason to think "we'll all be streaming games" in 3 years is because nobody will be able to buy electronics due to AI shitting the RAM market. The more likely result is more people making do with what they have and less games aiming for 300GB install size and 16GB minimum VRAM

He's right, I stream via Moonlight from my PC to my living room

I think what a lot of people don’t understand is that the dip in revenue is tolerable because they’ve run the numbers on the data they have and found that this move makes them more money in the long run. Unless you are willing to find a new hobby, there will always be a game you will compromise on if you have these sort of values, and millions of people that just don’t care enough.

You also have to remember this is how they define reality as well. Corporations may well be more durable than governments at certain levels of revenue. Try to recall all the things that you took as being eternal eg the Internet if you are gen z. These things were new at the time but you lived your life as though they always existed.

Now look at how the younger generations will grow into this new gaming paradigm with those who remember current times complaining as they ramble about back in their day etc etc. The new generations will roll their eyes as they go to buy the limited edition pre order collectors editions discs because the disc will become a status symbol.

Not to mention if everything goes their way we will be streaming games. Can’t be cannibalising this new revenue stream by selling physical disks that let people play without accessing the network and giving us data. In sure there are more plans but I haven’t gone researching anything.

I don’t have the answers, but we will all have to keep fighting the good fight against corporate rent seeking in all its forms. At least those of us that are aware enough. But we have to accept we won’t be making a difference as to how the world works, just living in accordance with our values.

Some might. I will be playing an instrument or reading instead. I'm out.

In 3 years my internet will be just as capable of streaming games as it was 20 years ago.

I mean... I won't.

Heard that before lol

Me with my over 500 games backlog in steam and thousands of Roms in emulators:

Lmao no we won't.

At this point, I'm convinced that if you think this stuff, you are not a real gamer and are fundamentally hostile to the gaming community, and/or a complete imbecile.

Everyone, grab your Stadias!

Because this kind of thinking went so well for Ubisoft.

Can't make people pay to stream board games and dnd. Which, coincidentally, I am buying guide books for because shitfucks like this are actively making gaming harder and harder to continue to justify morally to myself.

They: don't pay their staff but give executives massive bonuses (Game company CEOS are among the highest when you look at pay disparity charts), indulge in layoffs on failure or success (listing non-paid wages in the quarter as profit to shareholders) , continously justify gambling as not because it's digital (lootboxes, "player packs" boosters), actively erode consumer rights (liscense vs ownership), actively treat their consumers like dogshit (the ps3 WILL cost $700 and if you do not like it you can...get an Xbox? Lol?), cutting content of products to add back as paid extra content (moving up deadlines and prioritizing XYZ at the end so it's "not done" by deadline so it can be added back later for a price to beat the "we intentionally didn't include it" allegations)

Gaming's shitty practices are ruining other markets and the governments of the world's refusal to reign them in is causing spillover into other things.

From my PC to my steamedeck, sure.

So I'm not gonna be buying more games in 3 years? Guess I'll have time to work on my backlog

That headline completely misrepresents what he actually says.

Personally, I can see streaming gaining more of a foothold again, due to hardware prices, but only for the niche of high-fidelity games. And I rather imagine that niche is primarily going to shrink.

We've already got the "friendslop" games gaining massively in popularity. And if people can't afford new hardware, a streaming service will be just as hard of a sell.

Sadly I don't disagree, and that is the endgame, but 3 years is ridiculously short. Probably more like 10.