Would -the netflix of gaming- really be worth it?
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Microsoft and EA are currently overcoming that with their subscription service that allows you to download the game and play it on the console, and with BC on the Xbox platform this opens up the service for multiple generations of games, MS have even talked about looking at future Indie titles being made available on this service. Who knows in a few years if any of these services takes off, we will see more original content through a subscription model, but it's still early days, Netflix was a streaming only service for years and only in recent years have expanded into original content, it will be similar with gaming services as well.
Date: 2022-03-21
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bitessun
Further from the final point made in this, both Netflix & this potential game service need to go a similar way to Spotify. Netflix are making their own shows and getting licenses for a fair amount of non-netflix media (although not that great of a selection in my opinion) but the amount is no where near what it needs to be. Whereas Spotify, rather than running their own record company to produce their own music and then licensing a handful of artists from a other major and Indi labels (the EAs, Ubisofts, CDPRs etc in this example), they license almost every piece of music ever from every label past, present and future, it's very rare to find a piece of professional music not available on there. In order to dominate & succeed in their respective industries, like Spotify does with the music industry, Netflix (or Prime, whatever floats your goat) and this game service needs to license almost every TV show/movie or game there is or ever has been. Could you imagine if each and every record label started their own streaming service for each of their own music catalogues? It wouldn't even be considered by the label execs, let alone survive if they actually did try to compete with each other. Love topics and discussion like this, great video
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Further from the final point made in this, both Netflix & this potential game service need to go a similar way to Spotify. Netflix are making their own shows and getting licenses for a fair amount of non-netflix media (although not that great of a selection in my opinion) but the amount is no where near what it needs to be. Whereas Spotify, rather than running their own record company to produce their own music and then licensing a handful of artists from a other major and Indi labels (the EAs, Ubisofts, CDPRs etc in this example), they license almost every piece of music ever from every label past, present and future, it's very rare to find a piece of professional music not available on there. In order to dominate & succeed in their respective industries, like Spotify does with the music industry, Netflix (or Prime, whatever floats your goat) and this game service needs to license almost every TV show/movie or game there is or ever has been. Could you imagine if each and every record label started their own streaming service for each of their own music catalogues? It wouldn't even be considered by the label execs, let alone survive if they actually did try to compete with each other. Love topics and discussion like this, great video
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Finlay
that feeling when you are in town with your parnets when you were younger and you have been to a shop to buy a brand spanking new game but your parents need to go to other shops before you can go home and play it, so you just keep on peeking at it in the bag your carrying it around in, reading the back description and admiring the cover art until you finally get home and experience that rush of put the disc staright into your console and waiting for the game to register and then load.
thats the felling you miss with digital game copies
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that feeling when you are in town with your parnets when you were younger and you have been to a shop to buy a brand spanking new game but your parents need to go to other shops before you can go home and play it, so you just keep on peeking at it in the bag your carrying it around in, reading the back description and admiring the cover art until you finally get home and experience that rush of put the disc staright into your console and waiting for the game to register and then load.
thats the felling you miss with digital game copies
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Julian
A company tried something like this a while back... Remember OnLive? :D I loved it! I had one of their little consoles, about the size of a Steam Link. It was an awesome service. Sony bought them out to use the servers and setup for PS Now... I was extremely pissed off having purchased a bunch of games on the platform when they shut down... Bye bye several hundred dollars worth of games. But the platform was great, I didn't need a gaming PC to play high-end PC games. Just a TV, good/decent internet and a controller :D
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A company tried something like this a while back... Remember OnLive? :D I loved it! I had one of their little consoles, about the size of a Steam Link. It was an awesome service. Sony bought them out to use the servers and setup for PS Now... I was extremely pissed off having purchased a bunch of games on the platform when they shut down... Bye bye several hundred dollars worth of games. But the platform was great, I didn't need a gaming PC to play high-end PC games. Just a TV, good/decent internet and a controller :D
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Darkone539
I'd like it if it follows the Xbox gamepass model where you can actually download the game to your hardware. PsNow, as good of an idea as it is, is let down by streaming. Games are much more complex and require more power then a TV show or movie and I notice when I'm streaming them from my PC to my own steam link. It's great for single player but even over a local network I can't play multiplayer on it. The last thing I want is for everything to go that way. Infrastructure is way too behind.
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I'd like it if it follows the Xbox gamepass model where you can actually download the game to your hardware. PsNow, as good of an idea as it is, is let down by streaming. Games are much more complex and require more power then a TV show or movie and I notice when I'm streaming them from my PC to my own steam link. It's great for single player but even over a local network I can't play multiplayer on it. The last thing I want is for everything to go that way. Infrastructure is way too behind.
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troryANCAS
Isn't there also the possibility of input lag, or lag in general, especially if your internet provider just doesn't cut it because of various reasons you don't have an influence on? It might be okay, for me at least, for movies / TV shows, but input lag / lag for games is a serious no-go. So, no matter how big the library or how low the price, I'd most likely still buy the games individually so I wouldn't have to stream them. I wonder for how many people this holds true as well.
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Isn't there also the possibility of input lag, or lag in general, especially if your internet provider just doesn't cut it because of various reasons you don't have an influence on? It might be okay, for me at least, for movies / TV shows, but input lag / lag for games is a serious no-go. So, no matter how big the library or how low the price, I'd most likely still buy the games individually so I wouldn't have to stream them. I wonder for how many people this holds true as well.
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FeralGinger
This was a fantastic clip, nicely done! Personally I'd be well up for some kind of pay monthly service and to be fair if Steam themselves did it then it would absolutely DESTROY everything else out there I honestly don't think anything else could touch it and from there they could make a small Steam based -Console- that would like a lower/mid spec gaming PC that could play most current titles and they'd essentially OWN gaming for good haha
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This was a fantastic clip, nicely done! Personally I'd be well up for some kind of pay monthly service and to be fair if Steam themselves did it then it would absolutely DESTROY everything else out there I honestly don't think anything else could touch it and from there they could make a small Steam based -Console- that would like a lower/mid spec gaming PC that could play most current titles and they'd essentially OWN gaming for good haha
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gameranx
This is beyond pointless. The only reason netflix exists is so you can see shows and movies on demand and without commercials. We can play games on demand and even if we wanted to use this service do you really wanna spend hours downloading games you most likely won't even like? Another good thing about Netflix is you can be spontaneous with what you watch and you're not gonna be so spontaneous with games that take hours to download
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This is beyond pointless. The only reason netflix exists is so you can see shows and movies on demand and without commercials. We can play games on demand and even if we wanted to use this service do you really wanna spend hours downloading games you most likely won't even like? Another good thing about Netflix is you can be spontaneous with what you watch and you're not gonna be so spontaneous with games that take hours to download
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Adrian
honestly, with what we already pay to buy aaa games on release, a platform independent library of new games, I'd gladly pay 50$ a month for. The real upside to a concept like this would be the cloud based processing. They'd be able to release games regularly with updated technology as only the streaming capabilities would be accounted for, not the localized hardware power.
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honestly, with what we already pay to buy aaa games on release, a platform independent library of new games, I'd gladly pay 50$ a month for. The real upside to a concept like this would be the cloud based processing. They'd be able to release games regularly with updated technology as only the streaming capabilities would be accounted for, not the localized hardware power.
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machedar
If i buy a game and a console, id like to own them forever. I still have my old consoles, cartridges and disks. A netflix model would be bad which means Id own the game as long as i pay my monthly fee or have internet. I'll only get behind this idea If i can download it and be able to play it offline even when i miss my monthly fee. If not then no.
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If i buy a game and a console, id like to own them forever. I still have my old consoles, cartridges and disks. A netflix model would be bad which means Id own the game as long as i pay my monthly fee or have internet. I'll only get behind this idea If i can download it and be able to play it offline even when i miss my monthly fee. If not then no.
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