Thread by @AmazingThew

IMO yelling about latency on streaming consoles is missing the point. All the rumors point to Microsoft and Sony focusing similarly on streaming for the next gen, and no amount of physics is going to stop them

This decision isn't about technology

Why would they go all-in on obviously inferior tech? Because it transforms them from hardware companies into middleman monopolies that can extract money from every conceivable facet of the industry

The goal has never been Netflix of Games, it is very explicitly Spotify of Games

Kill the standalone rendering box and every gamer has to sign up for a subscription service. Now developers don't get customers; gamers and developers are BOTH customers of Microsoft (/Google/Sony/whoever wins)

Nobody gets to sell games; only supplicate the Algorithm for Views

Spotify is a DREAM business model for capitalists. An entire *category* of creative work, built by labor they didn't pay for, while entire countries pay them every month for access to a library that costs almost nothing to maintain

It is Infinite Money and every investor sees it

We don't know the details yet. They will suck. It won't matter.

Expect latency ruining entire genres. Expect LGBT content getting algorithmically vanished. Expect payment structures making short narrative games untenable.

It won't matter; nothing will stop them doing this

I super don't want to be The Streampocalypse Guy but I honestly don't know what we're supposed to do

Spotify literally ate an industry and no one has any idea how to fight it. Games don't even have live performances to fall back on

I sure hope I'm wrong?