Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
by dageshi on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @04:33PM
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I guess I was thinking more in terms of what's going to happen when you can literally play a game with the click of a button in a browser like you could in flash. My thought is there will be massive amounts of games flooding the market in much the same ways there are on mobile devices and the price will trend towards zero with microtransactions in the same fashion.
I wouldn't be so confident about AAA games being a barrier. I guess AAA games emphasizing "realism" might always have a high-end PC niche, since the genre could always ramp up graphics to the point of un-streamability. I could also totally imagine, let's say, Nintendo, going whole-hog into streaming games with cartoony graphics, emphasizing multiplayer with friends. I don't see any reason why the industry couldn't target and achieve something like 30 ms round trip latency. So long as the gameplay is good, the potential audience for 1080P gaming with even last generation level graphics is huge.
To think they would be limited to the level of flash games is hugely naive.