This.
I suspect they do complete it, but I question how long it will take. I also fear that the last part will feel rushed and unfinished if they take too long between releases and start getting pressured to wrap it up.
I understand their issues with the license agreements maybe not being updated, but my point is that it doesn't justify asking for a cut. If the licensing agreement that allowed them to utilize the game code during the free trial was agreeable, it's a bit unclear why suddenly the paid service would change their view outside of needing minor changes to the language. I say "a bit unclear," but we know the real reason.
The pubs benefit from the the service bec...
Sorry, but I'm with Monkey here. The current article has admittedly been written on someone's cell phone, is poorly drafted despite the "updates," and cites to a text exchange with an unnamed and unidentified "P.R." person. I don't know what it looked like in original form, but if this is the improved version...
I respect the independent research you conducted on Bloomberg (although it seems a bit slanted lol), but it seems like you're u...
But the games have been bought and paid for. Nvidia is just allowing you to stream games that Bethesda, Activision, etc. have already gotten paid for by the users. Nvidia is basically renting out a PC for you to play your games on.
I could see if they need to simply update agreements generally, but I don't understand why the pubs should be entitled to an additional fee.
Removing hardware barriers actually helps the software makers.
Apparently they want another cut.
I don't understand how Bethesda or Activision are entitled to a seperate check, unless they think they're entitled a fee for advertising? I don't know...
We buy the game, pubs get their money, and then we pay Nvidia to stream it. It's probably one of the best models we've seen.
Curious as to how what you describe is any different than the Bloomberg piece that drew so much attention.
Sure seems like hairs are being split. Ironically, neither this "report" or the Bloomberg piece dealt with anything controversial or earth-shattering.
You kind of illustrated my point. I also have a Vita with a large number of niche games, 3rd parties, and indies.
But Switch passed Vita's lifetime sales in basically a year. Without Nintendo's 1st party, I don't think that would have been possible.
When we see Pokemon sell 15 million copies within two months, I don't understand how you write an article saying Nintendo exclusives "make no sense."
It's still large scale retailer that specializes in a certain product, yet is consistently the most expensive seller of that product. That's already going to hurt them.
Then you look at the consumer experience as a whole. That includes the constant upsells, the unjustified used game prices, yes, the poor "trade" values, the push for constant preorders, the focus on high-margin "geek" merchandise, opened games sold as new, poor "retro" ...
The premise here is fundamentally flawed. People aren't buying Switch for 3rd parties. People won't keep buying Switches if Nintendo ceases 1st party output like the author opines. I have 3rd party titles on mine, and a bunch of indies, but if there were no "Nintendo games" on this thing, I'd never have bought it.
And the sales charts reflect this. Nintendo 1st party dominates the sales charts generally, and a Switch-only top ten chart is usually 100% ...
Timed deals are better for the devs and pubs because it alleviates a lot of the speculation over potential negative impacts with going the subcription route, and it allows them to renegotiate higher asking prices on renewels if the game proves popular on the service.
Timed deals are also more effective for the service provider to properly allot funding to new contracts.
Keeping the list of available titles to a curated number prevents new titles from gett...
I'm just disappointed that the media hysteria is affecting things that I enjoy rather than their endless US election coverage...
I guess they're being careful not to let it get so far out of hand that they impact their moneymaker.
As to the topic, I agree. I assume many companies would see overseas travel + conventions filled with other travelers as probably just not worth the risks right now.
But I'm going to keep partiall...
@reddevils
An ER nurse is far more important than a rando who offers no insight into the topic and can't offer an actual rebuttal to their comment without insulting them.
Now I want to see if they can hit a full year.
That last article is going to be a bit boring, though. "Spencer tells Stevivor writer "have a nice evening.""
"You were good up until the end there. AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure are not about gaming."
They absolutely are about gaming. They are about other things too of course, but there's a reason why they were in the discussion to begin with in the original article.
Three of the largest tech companies on the planet have dumped billions into the cloud, and it offers a variety of services to gaming. Game streaming is the most easily recognizable an...
@Christopher
The problem is that you want to define what constitutes "gaming" and what parts of it Spencer should discuss, but it's simply not as limited as you want to make it.
Gaming business includes Xbox, Playstation, Switch, Windows, ios, Apple Arcade, Google Play, Steam, EGS, Twitch, Mixer, YouTube, Stadia, PSNow, Xcloud, Game Pass, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc, etc. Spencer is head of gaming for MS, right? Why do you think he shoul...
Now, Stevivor....is this just another attempt to stretch that old Spencer interview into yet another article?
Launches are when the game selection is the weakest and the hardware is the most expensive and most prone to defects, missing features, and bugs.
No harm in wanting to wait a bit to see how things shake out.
Rightfully so. I think it's time for Sony to revisit their decision to pull PS now off of smart tvs too.
This is inevitably where these streaming services are headed.
It's funny because the nand/dram shortage was reported at least a month before the Bloomberg article, the impact on consoles was discussed along with it, and no one cared. Somehow Bloomberg is now the harbinger of doom for simply giving some price details on top of that in one article?
It's not worth all of this outrage. It's interesting on an industry level, but not much more than that. Sony will be fine because this type of thing happens all the time.
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Azure hosts over a million sites. You can't be serious here...