Is THIS the end of gaming as we know it?
Clickbait title I know. But for me this stuff is real Nightmare Fuel
Ubisoft CEO: Cloud gaming will replace consoles after the next generation
"I think we will see another generation, but there is a good chance that step-by-step we will see less and less hardware," Guillemot said in a recent interview with Variety. "With time, I think streaming will become more accessible to many players and make it not necessary to have big hardware at home. There will be one more console generation and then after that, we will be streaming, all of us."
Please see this video also, to advance the discussion. It is long, but everything pointed there is totally valid.
One of the critics on the streaming thingy is that players will never tolerate the lag, so there is nothing to worry about. I want to add this comment from the video. I think that hits the nail right on the head:
Gamers will accept higher latency if it's forced on them, so streaming has no trouble on that front. I still remember how every single e-sport organization complained about Starcraft 2 not having multiplayer via LAN during beta and launch (2010). Latency from playing on a server is very noticeable for professional RTS players and major Starcraft BroodWar tournaments in Korea had used LAN for a decade, but Starcraft 2 still released with no LAN for piracy concerns. Players and organizations kept asking for LAN for the first few years, but eventually adapted and accepted the inferior product around the first expansion in 2013.
If you can force higher latency on the Korean Starcraft e-sport scene with professional, televised matches from 1999 onwards, you can certainly force it on the average gamer.
