Everybody is currently feasting upon cloud computing's nuts at the moment, with services such as OnLive promising a streaming videogame experience that could change the world forever. Dyack is a firm believer in the power of such cloudy chicanery, predicting that it could signal the end of the "golden era of videogames" and usher in a new dawn.
"2009 may be the end of the golden era of video games as the first cloud models for games are announced," he states. The Too Human creator believes that cloud computing will end the tyrannical rule of second-hand games and piracy. So confident is Dyack in the power of this voodoo, he even discounts the issue of lag, claiming that all it would take for lag to disappear would be for hardware to be installed in every major city in the world. Is that all?!
Don't worry though, Dyack and his crack team of Too Human developers aren't ready to abandon consoles just yet: "Silicon Knights will continue to do console games as long as they're profitable."
Thank Christ for that!
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5:30 AM on 08.18.2009
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Thank Christ for that!
Cloud gaming would have a chance in 20 years maybe. with new technology and all other stuff they need for perfect streaming quality to enjoy the games. And games are always profitable. As long as it is worth to buy them. I heard some ppl saying (when first direct download services came out) that RETAIL BOXES/PHYSICAL MEDIUMs are dead too. But that still not happend.
(*_*) (*_*) (*_*) We love to get physical (*_*) (*_*) (*_*)
Home Consoles = GAMING IS DEAD!
Home Computers = GAMING IS DEAD!
Online Gaming = GAMING IS DEAD!
Handhelds = GAMING IS DEAD!
Video Game Crash = The ONLY reasonable one here!
8-Bit = GAMING IS DEAD!
Power Glove = GAMING IS DEAD!
Arcade Deline = GAMING IS DEAD!
16-Bit = GAMING IS DEAD!
Sega Activator = GAMING IS DEAD!
3D consoles = GAMING IS DEAD!
Sony joins in with the Playsation = GAMING IS DEAD!
Dance Dance Revolution = GAMING IS DEAD!
Console FPSs = GAMING IS DEAD!
The NGage = GAMING IS DEAD!
Mircosoft creates Xbox = GAMING IS DEAD!
Online Consoles = GAMING IS DEAD!
Casual Gaming increase = GAMING IS DEAD!
Guitar Hero = GAMING IS DEAD!
SEGA becomes third party = GAMING IS DEAD!
Nintendo DS has touch screen = GAMING IS DEAD!
Sony makes handheld PSP = GAMING IS DEAD!
Nintendo Wii uses motion control = GAMING IS DEAD!
OnLive = GAMING IS DEAD!
The people complain. ALOT! Although I'm not going to be an early adopter to this as I hate ALL subscription fees I may check this out eventually if there becomes a way to have a one off fee. I personally will not buy a console just to pay to use that console.
Also, am I the only one who consistently reads EVIL in the controllers' face buttons?
Couldn't have said it better myself :D
Atually the On Live logo on the console is an anagram for "No Evil" so there's no bad omens there =]
Also, what GGX said.
Arcade Deline = GAMING IS DEAD!
Console FPSs = GAMING IS DEAD!
The NGage = GAMING IS DEAD!
Mircosoft creates Xbox = GAMING IS DEAD!
I agree with these ones.
Yeah, the golden age ended after N64 for me... then came the first person shooters... (sigh)
*sigh*
The world doesnt work that way. Just because there is a new way to play/distribute games doesn't mean that the other methods are dead. Distribution will just get more complex. When netflix came along people didn't stop going to the cinema (that's the example Eskil Steenberg used on the latest GWJ podcast).
More Eternal Darkness please.
The last mod I used was for Doom, I don't want any more crap in my home, I rarely trade games in. I guess I'm not "people"
Having said that, I thought Too Human boring, so at least I am "most people".
This is bronze age...