/tech/ - Technology★

>>884403

>DRM infested

Nigger, as far as games go, streaming is the ultimate DRM.

Thanks to that eye catching headline most people here are missing the point of the article it's based on

>Microsoft’s new gaming cloud division readies for a future beyond Xbox

>The new division is designed to entice developers and game publishers to use Microsoft’s cloud services.

>Ubisoft has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud services across PC, Xbox, and PS4 with Rainbow Six: Siege recently, and even the mobile game Black Desert uses Azure virtual machines and databases.

>Microsoft wants more and more game developers to use its cloud, especially as games become more connected across devices for their multiplayer experiences.

They're competing with Amazon that recently put out an open source game engine that can only run on AWS and Google with their upcoming cloud gaming service called Yeti for Android.

A game streaming service for consumers probably isn't even in the works considering both their paltry selection of exclusive game IPs they own and the rapidly declining share of the gaming market they have. The technical infeasibility of it is the least of their concerns.

>>884409

The xbone was originally designed to require an always on internet connection for no real technical reason, they don't even need game streaming to push DRM.

>>884449

Which didn't do that well. Anyway it's not comparable to the modern game streaming idea since you actually run the games on your SNES. Some of them have even been preserved.

Anyway game streaming has to be the worst form of DRM ever because it's much more expensive to host the hardware and stream them than any "lost" sales ever would be, aside from the mediocre experience and latency.

>>884387 (OP)

Can't wait when Microsoft finally drowns in its own shit.

I have this nagging suspicion that faggotry of such degree might be aimed at subverting the Asian market. Netfux has recently begun investing in animu and nips aren't especially known for owning beefy gayman rigs, so if Macrokike plays their cards right with instant no-effort VN/Eroge/Dating sim/Gachashit streaming on anything with wifi they could achieve a sensible foothold amid Asian normalfags.

GAYmers are faggots, and there's already an endless library of older games from the last 3 decades that nobody can possibly finish within their lifetime. The state of the game industry is stale and degenerate. Large studios make low-effort, mass-appeal crap for nigger cattle, and indie-devs mostly just try to make a quick buck with shitty unity games. I hope there's another crash and it tanks like TV.