I wonder if this is just a Hail Mary to try to stop the fear that the merger will make Microsoft the most dominant face in streaming.
Even if it’s agreed upon, it just means in two generations once internet speeds reach where they need to be for streaming to be feasible, Microsoft will get those rights back. Streaming means next to nothing today, but the fear is in a couple generations, that’s going to be the future of gaming, especially seeing how much publishers want to stop gamers from owning anything.
I keep GOG backlog and rom archive as a just in case everyone shits the bed.
Oh but Steam is great has DRM free blah blah
Sure and steam is great because it’s a proprietorship with Gabe as owner. What happens when he dies hmmm? Will his successor keep the company private or will he immediately sell to the highest bidder?
Internet speeds are already fast enough. The problem is latency and it's impossible to fix. You can't beat the speed of light. You just can't have a 200ms delay between your controller and something happening in the screen.
"can't beat the speed of light", according to Terry Pratchett the speed of dark does so quite handily.
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
You can beat the speed of flight, by moving the data centers closer to people. Edge routing did this for content delivery networks and likely if this is ever to work it’ll need to happen for streaming. But that means data centers that can stream in every built up area in a market which is pretty tricky.
What is likely not going to be fixed is users home networking. Home networking in 99% of users homes is going to be using consumer routers, and those consumer routers are all just terrible and lead to endless problems around anything real-time.
Don’t kid yourself: data centers are easier to have closer to many locations, but ones with hardware that works for cloud gaming, less so. And even in a best case scenario, it’s still too big a delay to comfortably play anything apart from casual games.
Even streaming a game from your PC to living room box, such as Nvidia Shield, even wired, makes it nigh impossible to play racing games well, or anything that requires aiming. It’s not far, almost playable when streaming in LAN, but any WAN in the mix and it’s just not feasible.
Networking has a long way to go before streamed reactive games are even close.
I was playing Hollow Knight on Gamepass streaming the other day. It’s a game that would be just awful to play with any real latency, and it was absolutely fine. There was no perceivable latency.
My hope is that the more pro-consumer storefronts like Steam and GOG will help stave that off. At least to the extent of ensuring both approaches remain as options (especially now that one of them makes handhelds). Time will tell, though.
Exactly. When I watch pirates I watch so much Monkey Island it’s not funny.
I walked past my niece watching it the other day, and there was governor phat, right there on screen. Except it was the king. But it was governor phat.
The dog with the key. The voodoo woman, etc etc etc etc
If you’re talking about Chris Pratt and Tom Holland, why would you pick “Uncharted” to use as your contact point for Tom Holland instead of fucking Spider-Man?
E: This is targeted at whoever wrote the title for Eurogamer of course
I bought the last call of duty for modern warfare 2, ohhhh believe me… never again. What a fucking disappointment and waster of 80$ that was. The lack of content is astonishing.
My first thought was “So Holland is just going to grunt and breathe or something?” Then i remembered that they made J&D games past The Precursor Legacy.
My second thought was that Chris Pratt won’t be able to do justice to Daxter. Get Billy West.
I am morbidly curious about how this movie will turn out. Will they try and make it a family-friendly adventure movie influenced by the first game? Or base it on the sequels, which tried to make everything darker and edgier? Also, why? Like, I would love it if there was a resurgence of interest in Jak & Daxter, but of all the IPs Sony wanted to adapt for film they chose one that hasn't had a game released since 2009?
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