Sure that’s how it is now. As soon as the technology is mature enough, they will slowly begin to make a push for cloud only games. In that way they have total control. They can’t do it now because the technology is not quite there yet, and people is not ready. But you can see where they are heading. All business software such as Office and other cloud services is already there.
Gamepass is clearly not doing well and xcloud has been in beta for years now. I wouldn’t worry too much. Sony also has cloud gaming yet we are talking about the company that’s currently floundering lol
No doubt about it. Yet all we ever hear about is Microsoft! The only heat I’ve seen Sony get in in the last five years is charging $70, which everyone ended up doing, and linking accounts for helldivers 2, which was a very isolated thing and got reversed anyway because even they understand when the PR damage is too much.
Everybody focuses on Microsoft/xbox but no one wants to look too closely at Nintendo or Sony. Brand loyalty is a motherfucker. All of these companies are trying to get as much money out of us without giving us anything they don’t absolutely have to in return
There’s also GeForce Now and they seem to be doing okay but at supposed 25 million registered users, that doesn’t seem like that much all things considered. For comparison, I can’t get the number of registered Steam users but they alone have around 30 million concurrent users on a typical day.
GeForce Now requires you to own the game already. Completely different ballgame. Unless you want to indict Shadow too, which PC gamers usually herald as a great option (for good reason).
Comparing steam is apples to oranges as Steam has no monthly fee/library you get for a subscription. It’s free and just a client for gaming/buying games.
I’m actually a huge advocate of GeForce now as it democratizes AAA games. As long as it isn’t particularly twitchy like an FPS, it generally runs fantastically. I don’t understand why anyone would object to it because all it is is paying for hardware. Whether you own it or rent it, you need hardware to play a video game. And for $5/mo GeForce is a steal for me - 1080p @60 on high graphics typically. Admittedly, I have the “founders“ rate, but I am not the only one out there and their typical rates are also not bad. $60/yr as opposed to $800-$1300 for a gaming PC? Yes please.
Oh I agree with you, I was just adding onto your point to the person you’re replying to. There’s plenty of options in the cloud gaming space but they’re not doing well enough to impact traditional gaming where you run the game on your own hardware which they were worried about.
Sure that’s how it is now. As soon as the technology is mature enough, they will slowly begin to make a push for cloud only games. In that way they have total control. They can’t do it now because the technology is not quite there yet, and people is not ready. But you can see where they are heading. All business software such as Office and other cloud services is already there.
Gamepass is clearly not doing well and xcloud has been in beta for years now. I wouldn’t worry too much. Sony also has cloud gaming yet we are talking about the company that’s currently floundering lol
Sony is just as bad. Sony use the same tactics to vendor lock its users.
No doubt about it. Yet all we ever hear about is Microsoft! The only heat I’ve seen Sony get in in the last five years is charging $70, which everyone ended up doing, and linking accounts for helldivers 2, which was a very isolated thing and got reversed anyway because even they understand when the PR damage is too much.
Everybody focuses on Microsoft/xbox but no one wants to look too closely at Nintendo or Sony. Brand loyalty is a motherfucker. All of these companies are trying to get as much money out of us without giving us anything they don’t absolutely have to in return
There’s also GeForce Now and they seem to be doing okay but at supposed 25 million registered users, that doesn’t seem like that much all things considered. For comparison, I can’t get the number of registered Steam users but they alone have around 30 million concurrent users on a typical day.
GeForce Now requires you to own the game already. Completely different ballgame. Unless you want to indict Shadow too, which PC gamers usually herald as a great option (for good reason).
Comparing steam is apples to oranges as Steam has no monthly fee/library you get for a subscription. It’s free and just a client for gaming/buying games.
I’m actually a huge advocate of GeForce now as it democratizes AAA games. As long as it isn’t particularly twitchy like an FPS, it generally runs fantastically. I don’t understand why anyone would object to it because all it is is paying for hardware. Whether you own it or rent it, you need hardware to play a video game. And for $5/mo GeForce is a steal for me - 1080p @60 on high graphics typically. Admittedly, I have the “founders“ rate, but I am not the only one out there and their typical rates are also not bad. $60/yr as opposed to $800-$1300 for a gaming PC? Yes please.
Oh I agree with you, I was just adding onto your point to the person you’re replying to. There’s plenty of options in the cloud gaming space but they’re not doing well enough to impact traditional gaming where you run the game on your own hardware which they were worried about.
Ah gotcha