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played the entirety of Bloodborne on PSnow (this is my profile created for psnow, only one game really played to completion and that's BB). And PSnow is much worse than GeForce Now in my experience (gfnow stream quality is far more consistent. I'm in their beta.) and I expect google to be at least on the level of GFnow, if not better.
People who think the idea has no future are extremely shortsighted. OnLive was to game streaming what early Windows Mobile and Nokia Communicators were to smartphones. Almost nobody gave a shit about pocket PCs for aeons but when android and iOS came out it took over the world.
Yes, competitive fighting games and FPSes are not going to be best played on a streaming service.. so what? Do you actually believe the platform needs to be optimal with every single genre of video game to become successful? I guess Nintendo can stop selling 3DSes
Besides being at the right place at the right time (like how this sort of thing couldn't work before enough people in the world get good internet like fiber), another factor that will determine success and who gets to rule this newly built market is marketing and Google is doing something that may kill every single alternative to the service before they were even officially launched : they are integrating the service with youtube to the point where you can access a game demo and play it immediately right after watching a trailer on youtube. This is borderline criminal and should be watched over by regulatory authorities that are supposed to prevent abuse of monopoly power.
I'm mildly enthusiastic about the future of the technology, but I do NOT want Google to win this. I'd much prefer if it was NVIDIA who launched and won the market first.
Also, NVIDIA's plans for their services are the most honest. You'd buy and own your games, and would be able to play them on a gaming PC locally. Their service doesn't sell games, you buy them on steam like you'd usually do. Their service can run a full steam session.
All the negative posts here are like the first slashdot announcement of the iPhone.
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/07/01/21/2032239/why-the-iphone-keynote-was-a-mistake
"Mike Elgan at Computerworld lists six reasons why
it was a mistake to make the iPhone keynote at Macworld. He argues that extremely high expectations can only lead to disappointment for consumers and investors. The focus on the phone during the keynote also took away from the Apple TV announcement, put iPod sales at risk, gave competitors a head start, and (perhaps worst of all) ruined the company's talks with Cisco over the iPhone name. From the article: 'The iPhone, despite its many media-oriented virtues and its sweet design, will do far less than most existing smart phones. The problem Apple now faces because of Jobs' premature detail-oriented announcement is that of dashed expectations. When customers expect more and don't get it, they become dissatisfied.'"
When people have a wishful thinking to kill a technology or a product they will always argue about the impossibility of success despite the lack of reasoning.
