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| outsourcing the middleman? what will gamefly do if the discs become obsolete? imo, i think game companies are greedy and they are looking for any way to circumvent the "rental market" where someone pays $15 a month to rent games, and has to pay a high gameco subscription of like $50-100 per year for that company's online distribution with a minimum of 4 blockbuster titles per year (in addition to an xbox live subscription). it's unlikely that a big resurgence of the PC gaming industry will take hold-- not with prices & innovation where they are currently. what we'll likely see is the next incarnations of xbox & playstation evolve to replace set top box for ALL media distribution. this means 2+terabyte hard drives and/or media servers that host content, stream content, provide access to backup (blue ray media & hardware finally becomes mainstream which will compete with flash media too).
cloud gaming will be a popular evolution, but only if the game companies don't get too greedy-- they need to learn the misstakes of the music industry, book industry, the movie industry and the software industry. they have a chance to get this RIGHT for a change, but only if they price it right there will be no incentive to pirate the cloud. |
