I hope you like advertisements on your dashboard and in your games.
I wonder if Google will be focusing on F2P.
I wonder if Google will be focusing on F2P.
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Google gaming keynote | March 19th, San Francisco
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Cause they wanna take over the three existing consoles, not work with them/pay them
Cool - this is really exciting. Bummer it's a month away, but I'm super intrigued to see what they cooked up.
I don't think people will be as upset if they're not poaching games that have already been announced and shown.
I just hope the leverage their streaming tech with current PC clients like steam & origin and send it straight to my box. OnLive did a pretty good job of this back in the day.
The money.
Look at how much money all three console makers are raking in. Other big tech companies are taking notice and want to take from that.
I think this is a good thing. New players coming in to shake things up is more interesting than the status quo.
If this is Project Stream, I guess that's ok but not too exciting. I was in the beta and it worked well, except the one time I had some sort of lag spike. Then I got kicked out of assaassins Creed Odyssey while in the middle of a mission. Streaming is decent until you have an internet connection interruption. I would be more interested if this is a dedicated gaming box vs a streaming box.
I'm expecting just about anything. Poaching announced titles, exclusivity deals, acquisitions, the whole nine.
FYI, Google and Unity have a very close relationship, so I expect the infra part of the presentation to be key.
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/06/21/bringing-connected-games-within-reach-with-google-cloud/
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/07/27/creating-together-unity-and-google-cloud/
I would also expect some discussion about AI/TensorFlow in Unity, as that has been a pretty popular platform for testing reinforcement learning since it's free.
The Unity office is also a literal 2 blocks away from Moscone South.
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/06/21/bringing-connected-games-within-reach-with-google-cloud/
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/07/27/creating-together-unity-and-google-cloud/
I would also expect some discussion about AI/TensorFlow in Unity, as that has been a pretty popular platform for testing reinforcement learning since it's free.
The Unity office is also a literal 2 blocks away from Moscone South.
If AAPL, GOOGL, AMZN, FB, et.al. are serious about gaming they would consider swallowing up a couple of publishers/devs. Even huge gaming behemoths like ATVI, EA market cap is not even 10% of the market cap of the former, sometimes not even 5%. Then again MSFT is in the same boat and never bought one of those so the ROI might not be there. I just feel like being this late an entrant to the gaming space would require a high risk move.
Would go together with TF 2.0 release, so good call.
Would go together with TF 2.0 release, so good call.
So, we know Google hired Phil Harrison (ex-Sony, Atari, Microsoft) and Richard Marks (ex-Sony developer of PS Move and PSVR).
Any other talent we're aware of?
Any other talent we're aware of?
I was part of the beta and the fact that I had an 1:1 experience playing the game with very little input lag (if any) has me very excited for the service. NVIDIA NOW is another great service that works very well. We're finally at the cusp of video game streaming that will turn heads. Very exciting times. But it could come at a cost.
Most likely it'll be a streaming service with original Google produced games as well as third party distribution, that will be accessible on phones, laptops, tablets and a Google streaming box. Can't see them doing dedicated hardware, they seem so prefer software services. Maybe it'll be subscription service down the road but I think it'll start as a buy to play platform. Also can't see this coming to Xbox or PS but maybe Nintendo.
If this is launching this year, then the Xbox Maverick makes much more sense now.
It seems that is releasing as a preemptive measure to this and not in regards to what Sony or Nintendo is doing.
It seems that is releasing as a preemptive measure to this and not in regards to what Sony or Nintendo is doing.
MS has got the cash reserve to stay in play for quite awhile, and the streaming infrastructure in place to directly compete with Google if need be.
My fucking God.
YouTube TV, YouTube Music, Google Play Music app, Play Movies and TV, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google News, Google Search engine, Google Assistant and most importantly:
The Google fucking Play Store, the world's biggest application store along with a box that can play any Bluray movie or console video game...every and any form of Entertainment available to mankind in one single box along with the biggest streaming solution to elevate your gaming experience to new heights.
This could legitimately be fucking scary.
YouTube TV, YouTube Music, Google Play Music app, Play Movies and TV, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google News, Google Search engine, Google Assistant and most importantly:
The Google fucking Play Store, the world's biggest application store along with a box that can play any Bluray movie or console video game...every and any form of Entertainment available to mankind in one single box along with the biggest streaming solution to elevate your gaming experience to new heights.
This could legitimately be fucking scary.
So everyone wants to chase the whole gaming as a service/stream money,
I suspect this won't be targeted at us who own good consoles or PCs. I do wonder if they would try and imitate the switch at all.
I suspect this won't be targeted at us who own good consoles or PCs. I do wonder if they would try and imitate the switch at all.
Do you have the same chart for sony?I hope you like advertisements on your dashboard and in your games.
I wonder if Google will be focusing on F2P.
Yeah they have the cash but they don't have first party exclusive gems like Sony and Nintendo, the structure of development from MS is much small than Sony and Nintendo even with the new studios.
There is space for everybody. Sony and Nintendo are on a better spot. Microsoft will have heavy competition with Google and Apple.
If there is someone to be worried is Microsoft. What Sony and Nintendo do is their dna.
MS is highly unlikely to get out if FAANG companies are coming in. HIGHLY unlikely. A more likely scenario would be more capital is allocated to the XBox/Games division
Don't think it'll be anything THAT crazy LOL
I welcome Google entering the gaming space. As a primarily Playstation guy I'm hoping that it motivates Sony to stay humble and invest into more exclusives and an improved network/services (oh, and quieter hardware)
That goes for Nintendo with their online and MS with their first party as well (although the latter has already and are still actively making an effort to improve)
I'm really curious about Nintendo, they have the biggest IP's ever, but they will (probably) never have a service like gamepass and psnow.
