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"Cloud gaming" has plenty of issues with performance and latency (see the now-defunct OnLive) and is too reliant on a user's internet connection. TVs may have b

by wjoe 11y ago

"Cloud gaming" has plenty of issues with performance and latency (see the now-defunct OnLive) and is too reliant on a user's internet connection. TVs may have better hardware than 10 year old consoles but certainly aren't anywhere near current generation consoles. It might work for low end or previous generation games, but for cutting edge high-end AAA games, you absolutely need cutting edge high-end hardware. Not to mention, TV software is an absolute mess of unstandardised differing software between every manufacturer, so it would be very difficult for game makers to get their software/games to work on every TV.

padobson 11y ago
It might work for low end or previous generation games You may be right that the cloud tech needed to support the best XBox One and PS4 offerings isn't there yet, but Nintendo has been pushing under-powered hardware for generations now. And I don't know about you, but most of my Steam games would work fine on state of the art hardware from the early 2000s. A pseudo-incumbent like Nintendo and a potential disruptor like Valve should absolutely be thinking this way. And I don't think TV software should be an issue. Virtualization should be a trivial problem for tech companies of this size.
- dikaiosune 11y ago
  I'd wager that your steam library is atypical, but I don't have any evidence for that beyond my own and those of people I know. Also, tech companies that big can't even get basic navigable menus right, so I'm not sure I would agree that virtualization would be easy for them.
- HelloMcFly 11y ago
  > And I don't know about you, but most of my Steam games would work fine on state of the art hardware from the early 2000s. Most of my games probably would, but the games I care most about right now would definitely not.
marcosdumay 11y ago
> Not to mention, TV software is an absolute mess of unstandardised differing software between every manufacturer That's where a console platform comes in. Instead of being a random smartTV with second rate software built by a hardware manufacturer, it would become a random smartTV with the "Nintendo living room suite" or whatever.

by wjoe 11y ago

padobson 11y ago

It might work for low end or previous generation games You may be right that the cloud tech needed to support the best XBox One and PS4 offerings isn't there yet, but Nintendo has been pushing under-powered hardware for generations now. And I don't know about you, but most of my Steam games would work fine on state of the art hardware from the early 2000s. A pseudo-incumbent like Nintendo and a potential disruptor like Valve should absolutely be thinking this way. And I don't think TV software should be an issue. Virtualization should be a trivial problem for tech companies of this size.

dikaiosune 11y ago
I'd wager that your steam library is atypical, but I don't have any evidence for that beyond my own and those of people I know. Also, tech companies that big can't even get basic navigable menus right, so I'm not sure I would agree that virtualization would be easy for them.
HelloMcFly 11y ago
> And I don't know about you, but most of my Steam games would work fine on state of the art hardware from the early 2000s. Most of my games probably would, but the games I care most about right now would definitely not.

marcosdumay 11y ago

> Not to mention, TV software is an absolute mess of unstandardised differing software between every manufacturer That's where a console platform comes in. Instead of being a random smartTV with second rate software built by a hardware manufacturer, it would become a random smartTV with the "Nintendo living room suite" or whatever.