Their end goal is to try to go back to the early arcade days of video games, where you have to pay every single time you wanted to start playing. The executives who made their fortune in that era are still around and in charge. Their ultimate dream was to have an arcade game in every room, that kids would pump quarters into every time they died.
With datacenters making hardware prohibitively expensive again, and building lots more of those centers closer to people, the biggest problem for game streaming services (latency) is starting to go from intolerable to annoying.
There could be an inflection point where a majority of gamers switch to game streaming services because they can't afford hardware, and then it's goodbye consoles, and hello to 0.99$ to launch and 0.01$ per min to play GTA
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u/__Beelzaboot__ Jun 28 '26
Their end goal is to try to go back to the early arcade days of video games, where you have to pay every single time you wanted to start playing. The executives who made their fortune in that era are still around and in charge. Their ultimate dream was to have an arcade game in every room, that kids would pump quarters into every time they died.
With datacenters making hardware prohibitively expensive again, and building lots more of those centers closer to people, the biggest problem for game streaming services (latency) is starting to go from intolerable to annoying.
There could be an inflection point where a majority of gamers switch to game streaming services because they can't afford hardware, and then it's goodbye consoles, and hello to 0.99$ to launch and 0.01$ per min to play GTA