So there is an interview with Nvidia's GeForce Grid Cloud Gaming general manager Phil Eisler in which he goes on to discuss how issues with cloud gaming are improving and with costs of running servers going down he went on to discuss the idea that the next gen of consoles could in fact be the last. To quote him,
“They say this is the last console, and I am certainly a believer in that.The last one is almost 10 years old now in terms of the technology. As we go through time, the good thing about cloud gaming is it’s going to get better every year. One of the reasons we’re investing in it is we see that there are some issues today, but they’re all solvable and they’re all moving in the right direction. Bandwidth is going up. The cost of server rooms is going down. We’re bringing latency down. The experience will just get better and better every year, to the point where I think it will become the predominant way that people play games. Clearly Sony believes in it enough to put their $380 million dollars into it [by purchasing Gaikai]. That was equally supportive for those people that are pro-cloud gaming. Anybody who’s in the game console business is clearly awakened to the potential of streaming games to TVs.”
While at the present it may seem years away !0 years ago I didn't think we would be using consoles as media centres and playing our music and movies on them or be so obsessed with online gaming. The whole interview can be found here but what is your take on it? Would you support a cloud only future?
“They say this is the last console, and I am certainly a believer in that.The last one is almost 10 years old now in terms of the technology. As we go through time, the good thing about cloud gaming is it’s going to get better every year. One of the reasons we’re investing in it is we see that there are some issues today, but they’re all solvable and they’re all moving in the right direction. Bandwidth is going up. The cost of server rooms is going down. We’re bringing latency down. The experience will just get better and better every year, to the point where I think it will become the predominant way that people play games. Clearly Sony believes in it enough to put their $380 million dollars into it [by purchasing Gaikai]. That was equally supportive for those people that are pro-cloud gaming. Anybody who’s in the game console business is clearly awakened to the potential of streaming games to TVs.”
While at the present it may seem years away !0 years ago I didn't think we would be using consoles as media centres and playing our music and movies on them or be so obsessed with online gaming. The whole interview can be found here but what is your take on it? Would you support a cloud only future?