A Story About My Uncle is a story about the movement.
So Verizon is getting into the cloud game streaming business huh? Cool. It's funny how the future is in plain sight at the moment and people who make their livings on the moment not changing look at it and go, "Ah, the meteors coming, good thing I'm not a dinosaur."
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Sony are all going in on cloud streaming. Usually, when the heavyweights limp into a pot it's not that big of a deal, they are just putting seed money in to see what grows. This is different, here's why.
Game streaming for video games has tried and failed to be a thing for the last ten years. A lot of problems with the concept in general, but the biggest one is latency. The service streaming the game needs to be really fast to be worth a shot or else the game looks choppy and unplayable. The service has to be really good at digital delivery and stock the best stuff or else the service is just another shitty platform charging you for wack things. And the business has to be trusted and rich and powerful in order to get developers to bend the knee.
Google fixes those problems, Amazon fixes those problems, Microsoft sort of fixes those problems. They are not some rando dreamer coming out of left field, they watched the Onlives and Gamefly's live and die. They have a long term plan, and I'm with it.
And this situation allows everyone to eat. Game consoles still get to eat and no longer have to worry about stocking disks, developers still get to eat through licencing with the cloud service and more people have incentive to play their game cause it's not 60 bucks, and fans get to literally eat because they don't have to buy expensive equipment and can pay for all the best games with a Netflix style subscription.
There are some losers in this but well, is what it is.
Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, A Story About My Uncle. It came out in 2014 but it's free on Steam today. It's platforming bliss, worth checking out. Shouts to info, rip TB, rip TC, rip Tall-T. Love is this and hate is that, mess with this. Also Jobs.
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