Does this guy even make games?
“In some ways it’s the absolute elimination of any hardware as far as the consumer is concerned, because the hardware is the cloud,” offered Dyack, a long-time advocate of a single standard format for games. “It helps on so many levels because it resolves the piracy issue, which is a massive problem today, and the used games issue, because you buy something and it’s yours forever – it resides on the cloud. These are wins for the consumers and wins for the game developers.”
You don’t own anything. You just ‘rent’ it. And it doesn’t solve the piracy issue at all.
Gaming will never be hardware-less. Gaming is not and cannot be pure software. Altering the hardware does change the context of the software. There is the obvious peripherals from Wii-mote to the PC mouse. But even the hardware will do things that a ‘Cloud’ will never do. You cannot feel a Cloud in your hands. You cannot touch a Cloud. You cannot collect a Cloud.
Why is Dyack making pronouncements on the “Game Industry” when he, himself, can’t even make a decent game? I would much rather listen to what the developers of Ninja Breadman have to say about the “Game Industry”.
“Look at record stores in North America and you won’t see anyone in there under 30 because people under 30 don’t think they have to buy a CD any more, they can just download an album.”
And yet this was the OPPOSITE of the way the Music Industry wanted to go. The Music Industry fought tooth and nail the direction consumers wanted with digital distribution.
The Game Industry is the opposite. Game Industry wants digital distribution but the consumers are putting a stop to it. Just look at the sales of the PSP Go. The lesson of the music industry is to listen to consumers. The lesson is not that digital distribution is the future. The lesson is what the consumers want is the future. And consumers do not want console gaming to go digital distribution.
As is rules, whenever someone mentions cloud gaming, I must post the music video of Up, Up, and Away to hopefully communicate just how dumb the Cloud talk is.
Above: Dyack is stuck in a balloon