Vi rapporterade nyligen att Ubisoft-bossen Yves Guillemot tror att det blir "one more console generation and then after that, we will be streaming, all of us". Det föll inte i god jord och många oroar sig för detta och diskussionerna gick heta. Men alla höjdare i branschen håller inte med Guillemot, som till exempel Xbox-chefen Phil Spencer.
I en intervju säger han:
"I could see why he would say that.
I'm a little more bullish on people having local hardware to run games for many, many years. What we will find is more people playing the quality of games we're used to seeing on a console on other devices. But that doesn't mean this experience of playing on my television with a great sound system and great frame-rate and great resolution is going to go away that quickly. What you'll see is a diversifying of the places where people can play great content."
Spencer avslutar med att förklara varför han inte tror på idén:
"For a lot of us today, there's a certain kind of game we expect on a phone and another kind of game we expect on our console. It's not always true they're separate. You can see PUBG and Fortnite now on the phones doing much better, but a lot of the games there are very casual. I know content developers want to reach as many people as they can with their content. So, I do think as we move forward, more people will be playing more kinds of content on other devices. But television will be one of those."
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