misteryo: Streaming has advantages. If I don't have to have a $1200 USD pc in order to play new AAA games, but instead need a fast broadband service, that for me is a good trade.
It is not a good trade for TinyE who lives in Siberia.
So, the FUTURE OF GAMING is not that everything will go streaming, but that streaming will become a viable and popular service in places where good broadband exists.
GOG is also profitable, so THE FUTURE OF GAMING looks like it will also include a niche market for DRM-free games and for old games updated to run on new operating systems.
THE FUTURE OF GAMING looks like it will include always-online games from UbiSoft as well.
THE FUTURE OF GAMING looks like it will also include more Spiderweb games, very cool inexpensive indie puzzle games like Recursed, lots of MOBAs and battle royales, mmorpgs, shitty shovelware, innovative games like Undertale, brand new genres like Stardew Valley, spiritual successors funded on kickstarter and made by skilled devs who loved the original gamess like Xenonauts 2, successful indie studios who continue to innovate and delight with every new ip like Klei, etc.
THE FUTURE OF GAMING looks like it will continue to have a higher number of great games released every year alongside an ever larger mountain of trash.
THE FUTURE OF GAMING looks like less and less of a monopoly for Steam and more and more competition between the big players and also more opportunity for the smaller players.
THE FUTURE OF GAMING looks pretty damn good to me.
Cheers.
/ Ubisoft thinks it will be the last gen of consoles after this so maybe we cant buy games anymore.....So nothing is rosy here gg