In this episode, we discuss the end of the console wars, YouTube’s lack of vision and creativity, the Overwatch League opening weekend disaster, Chinese developers worrying about a China-only version of Steam, Activision Blizzard revenues dropping, the departure of Rockstar’s co-founder, Nvidia’s new cloud gaming service GeForce Now, Riot’s views on country media rights sales, the launch of a new CS:GO league, and so much more!
Episode #64: Rockstar Retirement, GeForce Now, Free CS:GO, Chinese Steam
My theory – the xbox streaming thing is about a tiered approach. Cloud only is the cheap option, owning an xbox is the mid range, and a full on windows gaming machine is the elite. Higher options kill lag. Stream from the cloud or your own machine depending where you are and what you paid for.
So it’s not cloud OR hardware, it’s both as part of a package at different levels.
I think it’s a really good theory!