andrewaggb
Limp Gawd
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- Oct 6, 2004
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Technically I think we all know some types of games aren't going to work with streaming. The tradegy is that if streaming takes off they'll just stop making those games. Twitch action fighting/shooting will be no more. Games will be designed to be much less latency sensitive. Publishers play it safe.
The good news is PC gaming isn't dead yet. Consoles were supposed to kill pc gaming and after microsoft tried to kill it to push the xbox it's still here. Streaming movies, TV, music, etc isn't latency sensitive and so streaming made a lot of sense. That's not true of all video games and so I hold out hope that streaming will not replace all gaming. But I worry that if the majority of gamers go streaming that many publishers won't risk making non-streamable games. Still it sounds to me that we're getting at least one more generation of gaming consoles so I think we can kick this discussion another 5+ years down the road.
The good news is PC gaming isn't dead yet. Consoles were supposed to kill pc gaming and after microsoft tried to kill it to push the xbox it's still here. Streaming movies, TV, music, etc isn't latency sensitive and so streaming made a lot of sense. That's not true of all video games and so I hold out hope that streaming will not replace all gaming. But I worry that if the majority of gamers go streaming that many publishers won't risk making non-streamable games. Still it sounds to me that we're getting at least one more generation of gaming consoles so I think we can kick this discussion another 5+ years down the road.