"Machines that weren't game machines before will become game machines": Take-Two CEO predicts that streaming will help fix the industry's hardware pricing problem

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/machines-that-werent-game-machines-before-will-become-game-machines-take-two-ceo-predicts-that-streaming-will-help-fix-the-industrys-hardware-pricing-problem

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 26d (1 reply)

Rockstar especially is going to shove it down our throats...

They don't want to ever sell another game, $60 even $100 a copy ain't enough.

They want people to pay $20 a month for each game they play, that way it's not just the whales from microtransations keeping live service games alive.

What they're missing is most people don't care about live service, a weekly rotating playlists having you do things you could have done anyways without being told to, just doesn't interest a lot of gamers.

When it does, those people tend to just play 1-2 games at a time, and eventually drop a title for a new one.

Absolutely no one is going to carry a bunch of $20 monthly subscriptions for multiple games.

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 26d

To me, live service just feels like a job, and I already have one.

Noklito@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 26d

These idiots will seriously march to their own graves thinking it's a million dollar idea.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 26d

Assholes like him create a problem of buying and offer subscription as the solution.

It’s honestly brilliant for awhile until the guillotines come out.

Archimedes@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 26d

This is a scam. And an obvious one.

warmaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 26d

He's foreshadowing GTA VI on Netflix.

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 26d

They've been predicting this for like 15 years. It's still laggy as shit

sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net · 2 pts · 26d

I think he's right, but also wrong.

Gaming is going to become smaller. Lower specs required, tighter experiences. Not because people subscribe to a GPU somewhere.

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d

Not without good internet it won't

DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 26d

Thppppt