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NVIDIA CEO: Every Human Will Be A Gamer Someday; GeForce Now as Major Game Service Is "Years Away"

Every human will be a gamer someday, according to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. That will happen through cloud gaming services like GeForce Now, though he admitted that's still years away from being a major game service.

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DarkOcelet2574d ago

Tell that to my Parents so they can laugh at you. I tried so hard to get many of my family members into gaming but all my efforts failed. Gaming is not for everyone, the same as reading books but the good news is that the gaming community is growing each day.

Erik73572574d ago (Edited 2574d ago )

It's not for that generation .

I think in the future saying you never played a video game is like saying you never watched a movie or read a book.

There are many people who don't even touch games. Most of them are from a older generation.

DarkOcelet2574d ago

It's not just that generation. It's also this generation. Most of my friends never touched a game and don't even consider playing them. While this generation of people are more open to the idea of playing a game, i can assure you that there are still tons of people that just don't give a damn about games which is a shame in my opinion as they are missing out on so many great experiences.

mikeslemonade2574d ago

I'm don't like people who don't play games. And it must be PC, XBOX, PS4, or Switch. The other gaming platforms I don't count either.

Aenea2574d ago (Edited 2574d ago )

My dad used to play on his Atari Lynx quite a lot, don't think anyone could beat him on Ms. Pacman, ever. Right now he's not interested anymore in a lot of things, just wants to watch football (soccer), he's turning 82 next week.

My mum has a Sony PSP which she hasn't used in a while, the battery died, I bought her a new battery and am re-installing the games she liked (the memory stick died too, wonder what happened with the device), anyhoo, she wants to play games on it again, she's 79...

And for me, well, I will turn 48 in a few weeks, now pass me that controller!

Erik73572574d ago (Edited 2574d ago )

Well its more of this generation and it will be even more for the next generation. You may find people who may not like games just like you find people who dont like movies or books. But you wont find in the future someone who has not picked up one and tried it. You find that still a lot today with previous generation and even today's generation.

Festano2574d ago

I agree with you. It will be like those things, everyone tried them at some point, though not everyone likes them in the same way.

ccgr2574d ago

Gaming is more economical than movies so I can see that being a possibility

Brave_Losers_Unite2574d ago (Edited 2574d ago )

Hell no. For Netflix vs 60 a pop and on top of that microtransactions, subsciption services, and upgrades. Gaming is expensive as shit

Kornholic2574d ago (Edited 2574d ago )

Netflix isn't even close to being the best medium of seeing the best or the latest films.

https://www.thrillist.com/t...

Omnislashver362574d ago

Anime streaming and Netflix are way cheaper than gaming. I"m admittedly more casual at gaming than I used to be which works out well for my wallet. I only play a few games I'm really interested in. If I were hardcore I'd probably be broke from gaming tbh. It's expensive as shit.

mochachino2574d ago

If they turn work into a virtual game, maybe, Nvidia.

bluefox7552574d ago

Some people just aren't into games. I think gaming will continue to grow, but there's nothing that appeals to everyone universally.

Omnislashver362574d ago (Edited 2574d ago )

I think the hyperbole of everyone gaming in the future is correct. I mean, of course it won't be "everyone", but a hell of a lot more people will game.

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Take-Two CEO Doesn’t Think AI Will Reduce Employment or Dev Costs; “Stupidest Thing” He’s Heard

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.

lodossrage2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

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.

CS719m ago

Company A has 300 employees and lays of 200 to replace them with AI to release the same quality game.

Company B has 300 employees and keeps all 300 but instead uses AI to release a game with dramatically larger scale, scope, complexity, short dev cycle etc.

Company B would release a dramatically better product by using humans + AI and consumers would buy the better game.

I actually agree with this concept.

Huey_My_D_Long12m ago(Edited 11m ago)

This is key facet. Its how the AI is used. It's actually is impressive as is and really would make an amazing addition to alot of people in their jobs, not just tech. It also has the potential for businesses to use to lay off large amounts of people, as much as they could to save money on labor. I hope too many companies don't go with the latter. But since usually companies are worried about bottom line over people...we will see some try and hopefully fail. But yeah, if its to help workers like in your company B scenario I'm totally down...Just scared Company A may be too enticing to some ceos and businesses.

Number1TailzFan13m ago

You can already make your own SFX with text prompts now as well, of course it will lower development cost and time

1Victor5m ago(Edited 2m ago)

WARNING WARNING ‼️ SARCASM AHEAD
Sure Strauss and robots didn’t take jobs from car factories.
Edit:Sad thing is he believes it and unfortunately he won’t be replaced for a long time by AI

jambola2h ago

Ceo says stupid thing
Part 5837384

Zeref49m ago(Edited 49m ago)

I think maybe sometimes we give people in these positions too much credit when it comes to intelligence.

romulus2340m ago

As long as it doesn't effect his inflated executive salary or his ridiculous bonuses I'm sure he's fine with it.

RNTody16m ago

Hahaha yeah trust the CEO suit over the actual developers making the games. Good one.

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HexGaming Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Hex Phantom

Custom Controller Company HexGaming launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest pro controller, Hex Phantom. - IS

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Trying to push players over from PC to console is a terrible idea, PlayStation

As PlayStation announces its new strategy to encourage PC users to choose PS5 it is a bitter-sweet moment for PC gamers.

Christopher1d 22h ago

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.

RaidenBlack1d 22h ago

let them try ... at the end of the day, we get few extra PC games ... yay ... and also promotes game preservation via PC ... so double yay.

LordoftheCritics1d 5h ago

If only Playstation games provided the ease of pc gaming features.

Primary being very few PS games support m/kb.

Christopher22h ago

If only PC games supported controllers more. Main reason I play primarily on console. So many games have shit support on PC. Playing Dark Envoy now, and it's quite frustrating since I have to switch to keyboard during cut scenes just to make sure advancing conversation doesn't also auto-select a decision. Let alone it's quite rough to select between characters and inventory screens are bad bad bad.

Anywho, similar complaints for both I find. But, I 100% agree that both PC and consoles should support both as best as possible.

crazyCoconuts17h ago

PS may push more kb support in the future to get more PC converts, we'll see.

Flewid63816h ago

As someone with a high end PC, I feel like the ease is on PS5. Too many PC games are a troubleshooting nightmare, which few people have the time for when all you want to do is pop in a game & play it.

Yui_Suzumiya8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

I just use an Xbox controller on my laptop for everything 😆 .. I haven't used a keyboard / mouse combo for PC gaming since 1996

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LordoftheCritics21h ago(Edited 21h ago)

I don't think you understand what I mean by the lack of m/kb support on PS.

Over a thousand titles have PS controller support on PC.

Not even 30 titles have m/kb support on PS5.

Once you are done with the single player title, you'll go back to playing your daily shooter/looter/mmo etc which the pc gamer has mastered with their mouse and keyboard.
Why would any pc gamer make the switch?

jznrpg12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

PC is secondary to PlayStation for them. Mouse and keyboard would affect development. Live service will have it but most single player games aren’t going to have it as PC is not the focus

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Fishy Fingers1d 21h ago (Edited 1d 21h ago )

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?

MrNinosan1d 7h ago

Way more do than you probably think.

ravens521d 7h ago

All you need is that one game that'll make a few switch at a time. Like a game a PC player REALLY wants.

porkChop18h ago

It just doesn't work that way though. Plenty of the best games ever made were never available on PC. That didn't make PC gamers buy consoles to play them. This kind of strategy has never worked in the past and it won't work now. It's fine for PS to hold their games back and release on PC later, but to think that will boost console sales is wishful thinking. All this will accomplish is some double dipping, which is obviously good for business.

JackBNimble18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

People aren't going to switch from pc to ps5, why would anyone do that for a game?
Most sony exclusives aren't all that to begin with, and pc has the option to upgrade what they want when they want it. Having access to some ps5 games, gamepass and steam.

Thinking this would happen is naive

outsider16241d 3h ago

I mean if there's 10 million pc gamers out there...getting atleast just 1 million from there is probably a good thing..right?

romulus231d 1h ago

PC players are not a monolith, I don't know why people keep thinking they speak for the entirety of all PC gamers like they all know each other personally. You think out of the millions of PC gamers not one single person will be impatient?Well Sony is willing to bet there will be. Why would they do it now? People's feelings change and new PC gamers come along all the time that may also feel different about waiting, that's why.

Yui_Suzumiya8h ago

Just like how I'm waiting for Alan Wake II to hit Steam 😆

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-Foxtrot1d 21h ago

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.

Crows901d 4h ago

Not sure they're aiming to convince the hardcore PC gamer.

Not sure why people are obsessing over his comment...it seems pretty simple to me.

He will do all he can to entice gamers to move to his ecosystem. As you say....exclusives existing hasn't moved many gamers over. But if they get to try them and love the games then they might change their mind about waiting 2 years.

We're in an echo chamber on this site...I've Personally seen people with Xbox and PC setups but no PlayStation. I've also seen people with small PC setups but no console. Not every pc gamer invests thousands and many may decide to put one in the living room.

They're not looking to convince all of players to buy a PlayStation...just a few...and really it is just a PR statement after all...they have to give a reason why single player won't release day 1....not to mention they also have to ensure current PlayStation gamers don't jump ship to PC. It goes both ways and they're ignoring the big L by putting any of their games off their platform.

anast1d 3h ago

"Not sure they're aiming to convince the hardcore PC gamer."

Right here

Kakashi Hatake1d 3h ago

PC gamers think tomorrow is promised. Sorry, don't have time for that.

Michiel19891d 2h ago

it's not just about loyalty or sunk cost, pc is an open platform while consoles are closed platforms. If you for example want to mod, you will play on pc, no question about it. Also if you like indie games, steam is a fucking goldmine for that. I've been playing a lot of indie games over the last years and there just seems to be an endless amount of them on steam. Also not having games locked to a certain fps is a prettty big deal for me and I assume a lot of other pc players.

Walalon1d 1h ago

And don't forget steam sales, you can get a ton of games on an awesome price.

badz14916h ago

@Walalon

Sony has been doing sales constantly on the PS Store nowadays.

jznrpg12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

@Walalon Steam sales are basically the same as PS sales. I was going to buy a Steam Deck and I heard about these Steam sales but the games I was interested in were not any cheaper. Indie games were cheap and older AAA were cheap but the same can be said for PS store sales. I didn’t end up getting the Steam Deck as there weren’t any games that I wanted to play that wasn’t already on PS and prices aren’t much different

romulus231d 1h ago

And how do you know out of the millions of PC gamers that not one single person ever went ahead and bought a PlayStation console for one or more of those games? People keep speaking for the entirety of millions of PC gamers like they know them all personally. Here's one example for you, I'm currently typing on a recently purchased PC that cost me over twenty five hundred dollars and is more than capable of running any game including Sony exclusives that come to PC and yet I still bought a PS5 so apparently I'm not patient or loyal enough to my set up, hope it's not mad at me for not being loyal.

jznrpg12h ago

Some of those people will consider getting a PS5 some wont. I was a PC gamer for a long time and I’m a console only gamer now. Everyone’s different.

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helicoptergirl1d 20h ago

Who cares? Then just stay on PC and play the waiting game. No big deal. Sony wins in the end anyway.

Number1TailzFan1d 20h ago

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.

Amplitude22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

Astro Bot is the game that just did it for me. I'm gonna have to grab a PS5 again for that.

I did this for Ratchet Rift Apart too but ended up selling the PS5 after getting my plat. Rebought it on PC and other than GoW Ragnarok and Horizon FW (which eventually I could get anyway), I haven't had a reason to downgrade my graphics, controller features, ease of recording, and increase my game costs and monthly subscriptions throughout this entire generation.

I play on a TV with a controller but this has been the absolute worst console gen for both consoles. Never in my life thought I'd be a PC gamer but I've been spoiled by the cheap costs, cross-platform controllers and mostly the unbelievably useful Steam controller config.

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