Speaking at the Develop Conference, veteran developer Matt Spall, who earlier in the year took his casual games studio Gimme5Games independent from Eidos, told an audience that cloud computing will be the dominant force in the next generation of consoles. The traditional console market as we know it is in its last stages.
“I think the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii will be purely browser-based systems,” he remarked, according to MCV. “Things will change a great deal.”
Spall seemingly echoed recent comments by David Perry, who of course is pushing cloud computing heavily with his own Gaikai service. "It won’t be long before 100 percent of games are all online," Perry said at the conference.
Perry pointed out that along with the digital revolution will come greater accessibility to content. The iPhone, for example, takes just one tap to install an app and another tap to play, whereas something like World of Warcraft, “I’m twenty clicks in and, finally, I see a play button.”
Perry plans to install his Gaikai servers in "every major city" across the globe. He noted that currently 67% of the U.K. and 60% of North America has enough bandwidth to support Gaikai.
4 Comments
July 15, 2009
I'm sorry but cloud computing will NOT be the dominant force in the next console generation. Consider this, Reggie Fils-Aime(Nintendo's President) has already said that his company wants nothing to do with OnLive and similar [url=http://games.venturebeat.com/2009/03/31/nintendos-reggie-fils-aime-addresses-onlive-iphone-competition-and-used-games/]services[/url]. Nintendo knows that they wouldn't have made a fraction of the money they've been making with the Wii and Ds if all the games were download only and thats not going to change next gen.
As for Microsoft and Sony, they will definitely focus greater effort on downloadable content for the remainder of this gen and next gen, but to think that either will give up a physical console and physical copies of games altogether(during the next gen) is just plain stupid. I suppose Mr. Spall and Mr. Perry are forgetting the whole "bandwich" issue, as well as actual download speeds. Maybe they like waiting 3-5 days for a game to download but I sure don't.
July 15, 2009
Depends on when the "next generation" is going to start. There might be a group of hardware that's essentially a bridge to the next round which then would be all digital. I think in 10 years time the broadband infrastructure and bandwidth issues will be cleared up.
March 19, 2010
I think that in general we probably will never see a PS4 or a 720 if browser based cloud gaming becomes the norm. because these machines are more than capable of running this sort of gaming with a few firmware tweaks.
I dont think it will end as quickly as predicted here. but hey there is like 6 or 7 years of these platforms left. and the fact is gaming has to remeber if you go purley digital, youll sell less games unless you are fair with your pricing. so far new PSP titles on digital download are more expensive than in most retailers on the high street.
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March 26, 2010
There might be a group of hardware that's essentially a bridge to the next round which then would be all digital. I think in 10 years time the broadband infrastructure and bandwidth issues will be cleared up.
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