tendoboy1984 wrote:
YellowChocobo wrote:
tendoboy1984 wrote:
I love how you act like you know more than practically everyone else here. Sure MS and Sony might be heading in that direction eventually, but it won't happen for a long time. And just because the platforms go digital, you still need hardware to play it on.
Look at iTunes/the App Store: you still need an iPod, iPad, iPhone to play the content you downloaded.
Or maybe you're thinking of a future where everything streams directly to your TV... It is happening on a case-by-case basis (Netflix, Hulu, Youtube). But for EVERYTHING to go completely digital (whether streaming or download), you still need high bandwidth, fast broadband speed, a global network infrastructure, no data caps, etc.
What makes you think it's an act? I do this stuff day in day out and I talk to the heads of these companies. I've been to Microsoft's global conferences where it lays out its plans for the future. This is my job, so I would hope I knew more about it than anyone else here.
The problem is that someone always has to argue with me.
The point I was making, and the point which you didn't want to understand, is that both the Xbox and PlayStation brands are not going to be tied to hardware in the future. They're going to be cloud software products, much like the App Store or Amazon Kindle is now, where you buy into a service, and then access it from whatever device suits you at the time.
The days where you'll have a box sitting there in front of a TV called a PlayStation or Xbox, and the only thing it does is play games, and you can't access those games from any other device anywhere else, are numbered. Both Sony and Microsoft have come right out and said this is what happens.
I never said that's the case now. But then if you look back I was responding to your silly comment that "may as well call the Xbox a PC." That's exactly what is going to happen, and it's not a bad thing.
This doesn't have anything to do with points of view or my own personal opinion. I am repeating to you what Microsoft, Sony and Apple have all made clear as their strategies going forward.
If Microsoft and Sony want digital distribution/cloud streaming to be the future, then why don't they just join forces and make it happen? True cross-platform play is something people have been wanting since the beginning of the gaming industry. Can't Sony and Microsoft just buddy up and do that? For decades we've had competing hardware companies making consoles that won't play each others games, meaning we'd have to buy the same game for different consoles.
And iCloud is still tied with Apple's mobile devices. Apple is very restrictive on that sort of thing.
Because bringing two billion dollar companies together doesn't "just happen"? Sony and Microsoft have very different ideas in terms of they want these things to work, too. Lions and Tigers both want to eat meat too, that doesn't mean you can stick them together and expect them to just start working together.
As for iCloud, it didn't even exist until six months ago. Once again these things take time to happen. The Mac App store game later to the party too. With the Apple TV looking certain and with future developments to the iCloud network, it will become more encompasing.
