...If you were paying attention at E3, you'd be forgiven for thinking game streaming, via services like Google Stadia and Microsoft's Project xCloud, were coming to transform how we play video games -- and fast. Like, 2020 fast.
According to Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft's Xbox division, that might not actually be the case. As part of an exclusive series of interviews with CNET's sister site GameSpot, Spencer revealed that he expects the game streaming revolution to take longer than some may have anticipated.
"I think this is years away from being a mainstream way people play," he told GameSpot. "And I mean years, like years and years."
"Let's take Netflix, which is 20 years old," he said. "I think we forget that sometimes because tech moves so fast. It's 20 years old at this point, so it took two decades for us to get to the point where shows like Game of Thrones and House of Cards are some of the biggest shows [on] the planet and mainly watched via streaming. I think game streaming will get there faster than 20 years, but it's not going to be two years. This is a technological change. While it seems like it happens overnight, it doesn't."
More at:
https://www.cnet.com/news/xboxs-phi...s-years-and-years-away-from-being-mainstream/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/phil-spencer-talks-microsofts-e3-2019-and-why-he-w/1100-6468799/
Would be interesting to know what is the exact time they hope for streaming to hit big and if Stadia has the patience for a long term plan.