Maybe from the side services such as a dead Onlive or PlayStation Now look so -so, but Electronic Arts He believes in them. And even prepares to launch its own streaming platform of a similar sense.
According to Gamespot, the plans were voiced by the financial director of the publishing house Blake Jorgensen (Blake Jorgensen) during the UBS Global Technology conference. EA wants to launch a streaming service with games after about two to three years. At the same time, the company makes the site not alone, but with the help of an unnamed partner.
According to Jorgensen, Similar services develop slowly, because the world lacks data centers. But thanks to efforts Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook*, Google And Apple This problem is solved. So EA I am sure: to launch her cloud site of the case with the data centers will be better than now.
However, the data centers are still not the only misfortune on the way to the flow of the future. Jorgensen understands that the speed and quality of the network connection is far from everywhere good enough. Therefore, in the coming years, streaming broadcasting will not replace traditional consoles. Maybe this will not happen at all, adds Jorgensen.
In September, there were already reports that EA prepared a demonstration of cloud technologies with an example Battlefield. The image then turned out to be so high quality that it was not distinguished from the graphics, which is calculated on the local user machine. But the company admitted that such results need an extremely good network connection.
Recall that the streaming services that are discussed are as follows: you connect to a cloud server, and it transfers a video stream with a game to your device. Thus, all calculations (including graphics, physics, and so on) occur on powerful remote systems, and you only need a connection with the Internet and a piece of iron that can reproduce video.
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There it will be https://nokyccasinos.org.uk/review/gxmble/ impossible to buy games there, only cases of 60 Bachinsky, of which a game falls randomly from the entire EA line.
I never liked this initiative with cloud games at all.
Only launching games on a native iron, no network and striding, sorry, shit.
Many are already playing. On Twitch.
And of course this will be a new round of games of the games-advertising inserts, advertising banners on top of the picture, a casino of volcano and all other tinsel with TV/online cinema-theaters
You open a case, from it a game or a card for a while in any Igrey, cards respectively of different grades, where the time that can be played on this card depends on the grade
Yes, I agree that if anyone can do it, it is ea. They have the most diverse game catalog – athletes, races, shooters, RPG, strategies. Of all the big studios, they have the greatest chances to attract the widest audience. But there are several but.
1) If, I understand correctly, then with Orijin Axsez you must download the game. And here is the absence of downloading (or it should be minimal), and all calculations should occur in the cloud, and not on the computer. On the one hand, this reduces the requirements for the iron, but the issue of the connection remains open.
2) Acsses is a good way to monetize old games. New games are not added there. It is more profitable for new games to adhere to the old distribution model, which greatly lowers the attractiveness of the service. By the way, one more point, games lose popularity faster, especially with the release of a new part.
3) Well, the last problem is not solved as it were. Many people do not play games because they take a lot of time, attention and require much more immersion than even series. When you lower the income from one consumer, you count on an increase in their number. Your costs are stable, and the number of payers for subscription will sooner or later pay for them. But games are much more difficult to attract an audience than series, films or music. So the growth of the number of users as in the case of striming music or films should not be expected.
In general, a very controversial solution. Although, he has his advantages. For example, such a service needs a very wide audience, which means the most diverse number of games. So, we can expect that the money will be spent on a variety of genres, and not on any one. Plus, most likely, this will mean the DLC sunset, because the whole idea is to pay one amount and play what you want.
A difficult topic, there are many aspects here. Perhaps the topic for a separate blog 🙂
Just EA wants to make another dairy cow. These directors of Tolstosumma sleep and see how to take all gamers (any rank) and put in one framework and calmly download money from them, while holding the entire audience on a short leash. Naturally, all this cloudy gaming is covered with beautiful words about the convenience of gaming (no upgrades, no settings, no difficulties with a PC). Personally, I do not mind (categorically) of this service, but people should have a choice which platform you want. But corporations need just a dairy "mass"
thousands of games for, for example, $ 10 per month. Or about the processor time – how much I played, I paid so much … It will be honest. Then the games will be sorry for the new ones to try, and buy a cat in a bag (based only on advertising) will need to.
This should shoot. If they are not it with the implementation and price.
No, you will just pay for the entire "package" of games. You want to play only in Battlefield 1? Nothing, you will pay for the whole package from a couple of dozen games.
If in the future all games will go through streaming services, then the day is not far when gamers will save money not on a new Vidyahu, but on a new modem and a faster Internet.
Only the main menu of the random game from the EA line. Levels, weapons, characters, music and katsets will be in the rest of the cases
A strange attempt to jump on the Netfliks, Spotifai and others model. To “strive” the game (here I mean playing the game without downloading on your computer) you need a very powerful connection to the network. Still, to stream a song/film and strict a game that should conduct some of its calculations-fundamentally different operations.
Such services donate income from one user, strongly purchasing in the number of users. This means that such a connection is necessary not just a large number of gamers, it needs it outside the game audience, so that, due to the mass of subscriptions, the costs of playing. It is extremely doubt that such a connection will appear by 2020. Well, or games in the cloud will be so optimized. I don’t know what is less likely from this)
Well, the third. Games, unlike music and even series, absorb a lot of time and attention. 7 seasons of the Game of Thrones – how much, 80 hours? For the game it is very little. It will be extremely difficult to expand outside the existing audience.