Xbox is planning a streaming stick according to Phil Spencer
gamespot.com
So is this the future of gaming? Will this BTFO PS5 sales?
I imagine a stream stick would be popular in countries like Korea China and Japan where Xbox physical hardware doesn't sell too well.
What’s the point of a console if you can just stream from the cloud
That’s the point they want you on gamepass, they give fuck all about console sales
Why not develop exclusive games for their consoles?
Streaming what? Did he sniff cocaine again?
Consoles don't make much money, services do
why? that's not how you win. that's a strategy that will lead to ruin. (ex. snoy)
Wrong. Consoles make millions from a single game.
To make money. Like Sony Corp unlike shitbox from microshit.
>OnLive failed miserably
>Google Stadia failed miserably
>"Let's do the same!"
Idiots
More consoles sold = win
Just ask the PS4
Onlive was ahead of its time. Stadia died cause no one wants to pay $60 for games on a service that costs 15 a month
They're talking way too much about services and streaming instead of the Series X/S and their games. I wish they would just stfu already and let their console release before talking about all this extra shit that no one cares about.
I fucking hate this. These companies fail time and time again at Game Streaming. We don't have the infrastructure to do it and the user base isn't smart enough to plug in an ethernet cable. Also, the servers fucking suck. This is not the future IMO.
Hm. I wonder if this is the real reason they purchased Bethesda and their Orion streaming technology
Microsoft's plan is that UWP will be a single platform for games across Windows and Xbox. In effect support for PC gaming is being discontinued and they are attempting to force all games to the Xbox. Everything in the future of Windows is likely to be UWP, or a hosted application using Microsoft's cloud.
This.
Onlive went under because they didn't have the licensing for Windows worked out and were driven out of business.
Stadia has had a rough start because ironically it was too friendly to publishers to get them on board.
Microsoft is an established player and has the power of a monopoly, if they say 'hosted streaming gaming' almost no one could stop it.
>closing down the PC
They tried this before. They will fail again.
>Microsoft's plan is that UWP will be a single platform for games across Windows and Xbox. In effect support for PC gaming is being discontinued
Jesus Christ take some pills you conspiratard
>MS breaks away from consoles for Game Pass and streaming
>streaming fails as usual
>not enough money coming in from Game Pass without Xbox
>MS goes the way of Sega
What are the chances of this happening?
what is that?
Microsoft has a history of rolling out new platforms and discontinuing support. There's a reason you play DOS games with DOSbox on modern versions of Windows instead of using a solution supplied by Microsoft.
If you really believe Microsoft will continue to support win32 indefinitely despite it eating money and generating no new revenue, explain why Microsoft would produce UWP, demote win32 support to a legacy compatibility layer, and add a mode into Windows 10 that disables the compatibility layer.
Further explain why after a meeting with Microsoft in 2012 Valve spent the next 8 years throwing money and resources behind GNU/Linux.
Is Gaben simply a 'conspiritard'?
>Stadia has had a rough start because ironically it was too friendly to publishers to get them on board.
Except devs have said the literal opposite, that there was basically no incentive to go to Stadia.
Stadia failed because it was something no one wants. No one wants to both buy games at full price AND stream them.
The best thing that could happen to vidya.
>Except devs have said the literal opposite
Notice the difference: "Devs" vs "Publishers". They are not the same thing.
>Stadia failed because it was something no one wants. No one wants to both buy games at full price AND stream them.
Yes, because that was what publishers demanded in order to put their games on the platform.
>The best thing that could happen to vidya.
How is Sony becoming the sole console maker the best thing that could happen to vidya?
Streaming will never take off as long and downloading games is still an option.
Also, fuck this never ending phase Captcha bullshit.
Like a rocky but for xbox. Plug the stick into your tv and you can play games from the cloud without a console
EMBRACE
EXTENT
EXTIGUISH
Did Nintendo magically stop existing?
Nintendo. Also, no new player can get into the market with Microsoft there. It nneds to exit the market first.
This is really Microsoft's last shot. They didn't manage to become a major player in mobile, and the PC market is a niche these days.
If they lose control of gaming, they're likely spin off or sell Xbox and drop out of the end user market entirely. Going enterprise only like IBM did.
Microsoft makes billions selling services
Microsoft can just become a publisher. They don't need to completely exit the gaming market. Just the console making market.
>Nintendo
You guys are trolling right? Sony and Nintendo are in completely different markets and Nintendo can't get a working online even if their life depended on it.
>and the PC market is a niche these days.
Literally bigger that it's ever been.
They are doing what those services failed to do. Letting you download the game while also allowing you to stream it if you're being a lazy piece of shit. It's still digital you don't own shit stuff but it's a step above
What fucking planet do you live on? Xbox makes them a shitload of money, and no amount of LOL SALES changes that. Holy shit you have no idea how the real world works saying shit like 'this is their last shot'.
multiplats generally outsell exclusives by quite a bit
>completely different
No, it's not. You spend money on a device to play vidya. It is not as complicated as people make it out to be.
Multiplats don't sell consoles tho. Exclusives do.
Why would publishers want to put their games on a streaming platform that effectively competes with their own physical and digital sales on other platforms in the first place though? And Google wasn't offering much to them to do it either.
Stadia was something literally no one wanted, publishers, developers, consumers, no one wanted it.
>This is really Microsoft's last shot.
You have no idea how big Microsoft is don't you?
>Literally bigger that it's ever been
The only reason most people get a good computer is for gaming, nothing else. It used to be you bought a computer to go online and shit like that but phones can do that now and are always with you. A pc is no longer a necessity unless you have a specific job that requires one.
You live in the Zig Forums echo chamber with retarded pcfags but in the real world a pc is getting less and less relevant.
>Sony and Nintendo are in completely different markets
They both sell dedicated devices for playing video games
The fact that they make different kinds of games for different markets is a good thing, aren't you bitching about a single console taking over? Why would you want them to make the same console and the same kinds of games for the same people, that's exactly what Sony and MS have been doing.
It is. How can you fail to see it?
Nintendo sells a portable console that you can dock. It is primarily a portable console however. You don't care about graphics because it's an underpowered console to play Nintendo games primarily.
Sony sells a console that has 4K gameplay (real or not) at 30 FPS. You play multiplats and watch sony movies on it.
>don mattrick
>fucks up so hard he can't even get enough funding to finish a few games (and tv series)
>phil spencer
>gets a fat check from nadella to buy zenimax
I honestly doubt he isn't bringing a ton of dosh through his xbox strategy
>Multiplats don't sell consoles tho. Exclusives do.
No, multiplats sell the consoles, look at the numbers idiot.
All those PS4 exclusives released after the console had sold at least 50-60 million units already. People bought it for Call of Duty, GTA5, AssCreed, NBA, FIFA, etc., not for fucking Ratchet and Clank.
It doesn't matter. Infinite money does not exist. Bleeding money for decades hurt the company aura and investors get mad. Xbox being dead last every single gen makes Microsoft look dumb.