Microsoft recently told Variety that gaming is becoming increasingly about having your favorite games available on any device you own. Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot said he believes game consoles only have one more generation left in them before they fade away to be replaced completely by the ability to stream games to a multitude of platform-agnostic devices.
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.
They already have AI trained to do coding.......
How he thinks it's stupid is beyond me, Especially since we see it happening in real time.
I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.
As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.
As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.
I mean, it's a business based on hardware market. Do we expect them to not even try? It's not like Nintendo doesn't do the same by not putting any games on PC and Microsoft until recently did the same. I don't care what they attempt, as long as they don't abuse the community or lie about their goals/requirements.
Will it work? Not likely. Should we care? No. Let them waste their time, it doesn't affect anything.
I wish them the best of luck.
But PC players are often a patient bunch, many will even wait for Epic launcher exclusivity to end until a game comes to Steam.
If they didnt buy the console when its games were exclusive, why would they do it now theyre not?
PC gamers are just too patient and loyal to their gaming set ups, something they've spent a lot of money on to perfect. They have backlogs of games which many never get round to finishing or get round to at all and will always have other multiplatform releases to keep them going.
Over the many years Sony has published so many awesome titles such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Infamous, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, Dreams, Puppeteer, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Gran Turismo, Motor Storm, God of War, Horizon, Ratchet and Clank, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima, Bloodborne
If none of those games BEFORE all these PC ports convinced a hardcore PC gamer to get a PS5 console then why on Earth would porting them them to PC now make any difference? All PC gamers now know 100% is that they just have to be patient, which they are good at anyway to get a PS5 game 2 years later.
I get GaaS games or multiplayer focused titles but if people really want to play these games they'd have gotten a PS console years ago.
Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.
I mean if there's any single player Sony games that I actually want that aren't on PC then I would buy said console to play them on. But the ones that I like that aren't on PC are few and far between anyway so no loss for me.
If I game, it's usually multiplayer titles, otherwise I like playing around with some other software.
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I rem hearing stuff like this last gen. next gen can't be the last for consoles. doesn't make any sense.
This again...
Microsoft most likely will...I can feel it. Maybe not next gen but they'll slowly be transitioning during that period to prepare for the future.
They will NEVER full state it as they know saying it or confirm their future plans as they might be worried this make them look bad, people will overreact and reflect on the awful 2013 Xbox One reveal somehow or die hard fans will call them out for "leaving" the console industry. They won't, I can see them doing streaming boxes with an Xbox streaming app on it for cheap to allow them to say they are "still" in the console business but they'll be focused on streaming as much as they can and will most likely set out to get other publishers on board as they try to take down other streaming services from EA and the like.
Once they do that you'll never know you could see the app make their way to Nintendo and Sony consoles, maybe not brand new games straight away but letting people download older titles like the Halo trilogy or maybe games like Banjo-Kazooie. Like I said before people start to froth at the mouth I said "you'll never know", if they did do this with an Xbox App then the goal would be, like Netflix for TV shows and films is to get that app on as many products as possible for more revenue and with how many players will have moved onto those consoles all they'd think about is potential subscription buyers for their new app.
This isnt some new, novel idea lol nor do we need to hear it out of ubisofts mouth about microsoft lol Sony with ps now, gakai, remote play, etc have been getting ready for this for awhile. Weve already had onlive in the past and they sold their patents to Sony :)
Cuz by the end of the next generation everyone in the world will have great internet and bandwidth limits will be no more? Nah. Streaming may become more of an option but it will be an option alongside installed games on console or PC.