Netflix is pretty different beast and it didn’t go well for them for a while.
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Is the same fucking issue, since it is the same problem be dlc or be a game on a streaming service.
What do you think will happen if lets say, EA has a fallout with Google stadia, in an hypotetical case where they were succesful and ea was a partner for years.
Suddenly you are cut access of all your games that you had in stadia because EA and google no longer have a business relationship.
We are already seeing that happend with netflix and disney.
Where now that Disney is pursuing to have their own streeaming platform, Netflix has been phasing out the disney content.
You dont own shit with streaming.
And no matter how much they sugar coat it.
Streaming gaming will be always be a subpar experience when compared to playing locally due the latency, lag, etc.
Their only selling point will be that since you are running on servers, you could have more computational power for graphics and physics.
But that doesnt really necessarily means better games.
So streaming is by any means a polished turd.
Is you giving up on your rights as a consumer and ownership, fuck that noise.
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Another scenario
What happens if the game company no longer wants to have the game online?
And while yes,it has happened before, you can still boot the disc and play the game offline if it had single player modes, but with streaming service?
You are fucked.
Or what happens if there are some legal issues that arise and force the content not being distribuited in a region anymore?
What if in my country, the rights to some of my games end falling for another company and now i cant no longer access my games because of that?
There are multiple reasons why all this crap of streaming games is a bad idea.
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People are moving towards not owning stuff as long as they have access to it. Music streaming, Netflix, Uber & Lyft, leasing cars, leasing phones, software, etc. I get that you and I have grown up owning our media, but not everyone cares about that anymore. If you do, I’m sure you’ll continue to be able to buy stuff, but eventually you’ll probably be a minority in that respect.
Latency and lag will be mitigated by faster connections becoming the norm. Some games are actually building lag into the game offline anyway.
That’s already going to be the case with a lot of games coming out now that rely on multiplayer to even function. What are you going to do when nobody plays the game anymore or they shutter the servers? Same exact thing.
LMAO.
That would never happen.
There is a limit of how much you can mitigate.
It does, but is not for every game.
But with streaming games it will be for every single one.
I can still come, and boot multiple games from the atari up to date without a worry that i cant play it.
With Streaming that is not the case.
Anything at any moment can cut me out of stuff the i paid for, forever.
That people are stupid and they are willing to get fucked because they are imbeciles is another thing.
And streaming is all of that.
Is something made to sell to idiots.
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If streaming becomes the way the industry goes. out me out. I quit modern console games and stick to retro consoles and PC.
At least steam and GOG let’s me make backup copies of the PC games I have.
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I know. So am I.
I’m not sure what the internet situation is in your country, but within the next 10 years, the internet in the US will be able to support reasonably lag free streaming. We’re talking single digits pings.
RE the atari, sure but you’re already in that same situation if you’re buying games digitally and you’re paying quite a bit more there if you buy a lot of games.
You guys sound just like all the people who swore they were moving to Canada when Trump got elected but are still fuckin here 
Of course, you’d be right to be worried since all the people who bought their music and movies outright were forced to stop doing so once Spotify and Netflix became a thing…
I’m going to interrupt this discussion over streaming games (tossing in 2 cents, streaming games will be bad…the cons outweigh any convenience or pros that would come from it and if the industry goes that way the consumers won’t know how fucked they are until its too late) to show some picture’s from my kid’s baby shower. One of my wife’s friends went in on the theme.
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The bad ports on Switch generally happen when the dev doesn’t think of the platform its on and think they can just slap the game on the system and call it a day. Doom and Wolfenstein pretty much shut down any noise on this. There are NO excuses now.
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And yet you can still jailbreak your respective PS3/360 and download both the game and DLC off the worldwide web (i.e. hackers, modders, and pirates do what game companies don’t).
Considering I don’t play online and barely purchase any new games as is with the majority being indies I can only say thanks for saving me more money. A lot of the modern AAA development is much less interesting to experience first hand than to observe nowadays anyhow.
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Code Vein DLC banned in NA, all cause SJWs cry
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Don’t forget Witcher III
That’s why I moved to PC gaming.
I dont need to jail break a thing, and if the thing breaks I can fix it myself with normal parts.
I fixed a broken Xbox 360 once, that was a headache.
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So apparently the top image is MK11 on PS4/XBONE (person didn’t specify which) and the bottom is MK11 on the Switch.
Yikes.
If Doom and Wolfenstein were the start the if Witcher 3 continues as it is on Switch (everything sounds positive thus far) then that’s the final nail in the coffin on anything regarding ports to Switch. Any argument regarding why a port from at least PS4 and Xbone 3rd party titles will be completely buried. Devs either need to take the time to make it work, give it to someone who will, or just don’t do it if you don’t want to put forth the effort and money.
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Also the PS4 and Xbox one uses x86 CPU architecture, The Switch is ARM based.
They are very different processors, requiring different instruction sets.
Doom and Wolfenstein works as they were built in the Vulcan API which is very cross platform friendly (which everything but the XBone supports)
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Lighting on the Switch version has always been weird which is semi understandable since they had to reduce a lot of stuff and sacrifice a few goats to make it run at 60fps…that hair is extra weird though.
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