I feel so silly, I had known about the smaller cloud streaming things from the console companies… But up until recently, I had no clue that they even had cloud streaming services like this Amazon Luna.steam was about as aware as I had gotten… I like the concept because it’s easy for me and my family to play together, but I really hate it because being an old-school gamer I absolutely loved that feeling when you could get go get a new game in the things that went around it with it like the merchandise, it was something that you had been able to be a part of that meant something.now it’s become such a hassle to even try to play the game. It makes us feel inferior to it.gunner the days when everybody used to come together and be like yeah I got this last night. I spent all day waiting in line for this. I pre-ordered that… Or what have you. Like I said convenience is good here for the big companies, but for a smaller fish, it just messes us up…

Wait I thought stock buybacks and hollowing out all our dedicated talent didn’t have consequences?

With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.

It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.

We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Streaming Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Streaming Platforms for their own games.

This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of that same industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.

Steam and GOG will end up pushed out of the market or they will also become Streaming Platforms, just ones that cater to a different set of players.

Indian CEOS yo.

Part of the problem might be that I literally have no idea what their current console is called? Whoever was in charge of naming the last threeish xbox consoles should be fired out of a cannon