Nvidia says Next-gen consoles will be the last and swallowed by Cloud gaming

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/369711/next-gen-consoles-will-be-the-last-nvidia/

ohhh snap PC GAMING AND CLOUD GAMING ARE GONNA GANG UP ON CONSOLES GOOD THING SONY BOUGHT GAIKA!!!!

lol nvidia , that is funny because onlive just gone through financial troubles of some sort , so id like to know where you come up with that analagy

Streaming Zelda lol, no.

I am not against cloud gaming though.

Not gonna happen next gen, I know better than Nvidia.

lol nvidia , that is funny because onlive just gone through financial troubles of some sort , so id like to know where you come up with that analagy

mariokart64fan

Doesn't really bother them that much seeing as how they're buddies with Gaikai which was just bought by Sony, I think AMD was the one that partnered and supplied Onlive

To be honest I don't like cloud gaming. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and their parents bought them a new video game

"Merry Christmas son! We got you a new game, we already downloaded it onto your virtual account. We couldn't wrap it but it's on there.So...enjoy it."

There's nothing quite like opening a new game box.

Well I hope you guys bash the hell out of this, cause I've been saying this for years and getting bashed for it. :P

As General_X pointed out, caps are a big problem for cloud gaming, it can already be pretty hard to stay under when it comes to downloading, imagine streaming, especially when you go for a big marathon. Also, I doubt the current infrastructure in most countries wouldn't be able to handle that many people streaming such big content and for that long. While cloud gaming will definitely come around, we still have a long way to go.EliteM0nk3y

I think we could see it around early - mid 20's (sounds so weird saying that).

To be honest I don't like cloud gaming. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and their parents bought them a new video game

"Merry Christmas son! We got you a new game, we already downloaded it onto your virtual account. We couldn't wrap it but it's on there.So...enjoy it."

There's nothing quite like opening a new game box.

PhazonBlazer

That's a pretty insignificant part of gaming, IMO, even if you do have a point. I wouldn't not take the advantages of cloud gaming over something like that. Anyway, I'm sure they can wrap, say, a DVD box that's cover presentably explains the gift, if they want to.

To be honest I don't like cloud gaming. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and their parents bought them a new video game

"Merry Christmas son! We got you a new game, we already downloaded it onto your virtual account. We couldn't wrap it but it's on there.So...enjoy it."

There's nothing quite like opening a new game box.

PhazonBlazer

Maybe in the future but next gen not going to happen because not everyone has a network to connect to the internet and there are just too many factors for that to be possible right now.

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To be honest I don't like cloud gaming. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and their parents bought them a new video game

"Merry Christmas son! We got you a new game, we already downloaded it onto your virtual account. We couldn't wrap it but it's on there.So...enjoy it."

There's nothing quite like opening a new game box.

jsmoke03

Yeah they'll be like

"Yeah Jimmy we gave Santa your steam password and he downloaded all the games you wanted onto your account."

lol nvidia , that is funny because onlive just gone through financial troubles of some sort , so id like to know where you come up with that analagy

mariokart64fan

As long as data caps are still a thing in major parts of the world I highly doubt Cloud Gaming will catch on.General_X

[QUOTE="General_X"]As long as data caps are still a thing in major parts of the world I highly doubt Cloud Gaming will catch on.Cherokee_Jack

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-TWC-Cox-All-Planning-Game-Services-121347

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lol nvidia , that is funny because onlive just gone through financial troubles of some sort , so id like to know where you come up with that analagy

Doesn't really bother them that much seeing as how they're buddies with Gaikai which was just bought by Sony, I think AMD was the one that partnered and supplied Onlive

Hmm...Nvidia seems jealous just because nobody wants their GPU on a console. Oh Nvidia!

To be honest I don't like cloud gaming. Imagine a kid waking up on Christmas morning and their parents bought them a new video game

"Merry Christmas son! We got you a new game, we already downloaded it onto your virtual account. We couldn't wrap it but it's on there.So...enjoy it."

There's nothing quite like opening a new game box.

PhazonBlazer

[QUOTE="General_X"]As long as data caps are still a thing in major parts of the world I highly doubt Cloud Gaming will catch on.Cherokee_Jack

Umm doesnn't nvidia realize that this would actually hurt their business? The only business they would have left would be their Quadro GFX line of cards and the cards being sold to the cloud companies. All the consumer GPUs would go away if cloud gaming took over, and if it does then count me out, I'll replay my old games.

Everytime a new mmo comes out its a huge fiasco, similar issues would occur with cloud gaming. Imagine COD or Halo on launch day and millions trying to login and play at the same time. P2P multiplayer is already a huge lagfest and would be at least twice as bad with cloud gaming.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"][QUOTE="General_X"]As long as data caps are still a thing in major parts of the world I highly doubt Cloud Gaming will catch on.JigglyWiggly_

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-TWC-Cox-All-Planning-Game-Services-121347

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/369711/next-gen-consoles-will-be-the-last-nvidia/

ohhh snap PC GAMING AND CLOUD GAMING ARE GONNA GANG UP ON CONSOLES GOOD THING SONY BOUGHT GAIKA!!!!

NoodleFighter

Uh, yeah Nvidia - how'd OnLive and its maximum of 1,100 concurrent users turn out?

Correct me if I'm wrong but even if console gaming shrinks down there will still be a market for it wouldn't there? I dare not say how well internet connections will go up over the next 5 years because technology moves fast but some people will never accept cloud gaming and you can't change their minds.

Hmm...Nvidia seems jealous just because nobody wants their GPU on a console. Oh Nvidia!

XVision84

As long as data caps are still a thing in major parts of the world I highly doubt Cloud Gaming will catch on.General_X

Some form of cloud service is propably the future, but not onlive-kind, where all the processing is done off-server and then streamed. That's too inefficent solution for the "we can't afford good hardware" problem. It's also dead-end, as we are going to eventually reach a point where a smartphone will be able to run anything you throw at it, so graphics will just depend on developer, not on your hardware. When we reach this point, it will make onlive-like service completely useless.

But yeah, consoles will die out. I think they have two more gens in them though, not just one

Lag also has a HUGE part in why it won't happen for at least another 20-30 years.

Places like the south pacific and Oceania (Singapore, Australia, Malaysia) have a HUGE gaming audience but are very far away from where most of the action is happening. So lag makes it literally impossible to play PvP online without an enormous disadvantage.

That's online though, but it still won't happen without putting servers in almost EVERY country.

I just can't see cloud gaming being viable for many years yet. It will be ruined by low bandwidth speeds and horrible lag to the point where it is unplayable.OhJayDubya

People keep saying the same thing:

It won't happen for many years!

I agree, but just how many years are "many" years, exactly? Nvidia says next gen will be the last. Given that next gen will likely not kick off for another year or year and a half, given that next gen is predicted ot last even longer than this one, we're talking a total of 10-12 years from now.

What was the internet situation in 2000 vs what it is now? I was still on dial-up in 2000, and PC games were the only games that had robust online compoenents. Consoles were still stuck off-line.

Fast forward to now, and the majority of the country is on broadband. Everyone is online because facebook. Almost all console and PC games contain online components, and many games and consoles RELY on an internet connection to be updated and funciton properly. Hell, almost no one I knew had a cellphone, and now everyone I know not only has a cell phone, but they all smartphones with onbline capabilities and angry birds.

Do you really think in 12 years things won't significantly change?

I bet you guys $20 that it does.

nvidia is just mad that console gamers dont care about their products , as long as there is demand for consoles with physical games then they will be produced and sold , even vinyl records are still being pressed and sold because there is still certain demand even in todays mp3-download age

Ill keep supporting consoles as long as they exist.

Why would you stream, when in the future smartphones will be powerful enough to run games locally? Doesn't make sense to me.

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/369711/next-gen-consoles-will-be-the-last-nvidia/

ohhh snap PC GAMING AND CLOUD GAMING ARE GONNA GANG UP ON CONSOLES GOOD THING SONY BOUGHT GAIKA!!!!

GunSmith1_basic

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/369711/next-gen-consoles-will-be-the-last-nvidia/

ohhh snap PC GAMING AND CLOUD GAMING ARE GONNA GANG UP ON CONSOLES GOOD THING SONY BOUGHT GAIKA!!!!

GunSmith1_basic

Intel Haswell GT3 will destroy NVIDIA's mid range i.e. Intel Haswell GT3 was shown to play Skyrim @1080p and high details, while AMD catches up with Steamroller (with double the decoder units).

NVIDIA only has about 15 percent of the PC GPU/IGP market and zero for next gen consoles.

Qualcomm has a home run with Snapdragon S4 Pro (Adreno 320 is based on AMD Xenos IP).