Are game streaming and subscriptions really the future of vidya?

>The Premature Death of the Woke Era
FTFY, ur welcome

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they made a really dog shit service that didn't even have CNN (the news station) on it

it was doomed from the start, and they lost a shit ton of money because they put a really useless product out into a saturated market and I think they had a ludicrously low amount of subscribers at peak

they really were delusional if they expected people to pay to watch fucking CNN lmao

unironically yes

That or he could do onlive/xcloud.

MS is intentionally keeping the price of GamePass down, but it will go up, and so will whatever the fuck Sony is doing.

Once my GoyimPass sub lapses (I spent $1 to upgrade my Gold sub like 3 years ago) I will cancel it.

Netflix got big because they got a ton of content for very cheap, then those studios got greedy and thought they could charge customers directly for that content. Hence the nonsense we have today.

>Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence, sources said.

Imagine having fewer subscribers than a Minecraft vtuber.

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>Amazon shits out Rings of Power. A wokeshit revisionist bastardization of Tolkien's works.
>1 to 1000 ratio up to down votes.
>Amazon frantically removes over 40,000 comments

This is where subscription based television has led us. Vidya is next.

When even Nintendo is leaning into it heavily and they're extremely lazy with this stuff, yeah probably. It's hard to fight with a subscription service because of both the lower up front cost and the higher amount of content due to buying in bulk.

>be CNN
>spend years spouting lunatic conspiracy theories to your oversocialized libtard audience
>think they actually really care about the network and its shows
>spend $300 million thinking SJWs will pay more money to watch retards like Brian Stelter talk about things other than Drumpf
>ratings collapse after Joe Biden “wins” the election
>still release CNN+
>nobody cares
>*shocked pikachu*

>big company failed in an industry
>WAAAHH THIS INDUSTRY IS DYING WAAHHHH LOOK AT US WAHHHH

jesus.

subscription based television immediately got too big for its britches. Gaming has already been there for a decade. Your fears are already coming true whether you see it or not.

>our shit isn't doing well so that means the entire industry is collapsing
LOL
LMAO

Good. Fuck CNN.

this

Spreading content across 50 different streaming platforms makes each individual one less appealing and makes pirating much more convenient.

The entire videogame industry could completely collapse and I will be fine. I have more vidya than I could ever play.

In fact I welcome such an event.

Netflix loses customers.
Tubi makes massive gains among boomers.

>Vidya
We can only hope but gamers are kind of stupid.

Do you really think that Peacock, Paramount+, Hulu, etc. Are all soaking up Netflix’s customers and then some?

it is far more likely that Netflix is a bellwether for the entire industry.

>2010
>Could watch basically everything with a Netflux and Hulu subscription
>2022
>Buying streaming services for all the shows you want to watch now costs as much as a cable bill
I like how we're right back at square one.

I have 200 down and every time in the past few years I've tried game streaming it has horrible latency.
Whether it be Xcloud, Stadia, GeforceNow, etc.
I'm just going to buy a PC.

Also
>pay premium for no commercials
>they eventually add adds into the app anyway
They are legit removing every single aspect of what made streaming appealing, and then wondering why its crashing.

>PC Magazine gave CNN+ a 4.0 out of 5 rating, praising its programming and its lack of ads while criticizing its lack of live CNN programming (without a paid cable subscription) and its lack of mobile content downloads
The reviews are hilarious.

>try and do the sneaky shalom and make streaming into cable and cost $100+ to see everything across 10 networks
>Millenials just teach the zoomers who don't already know how to torrent
Gotta raise 'em right, so they can learn and teach the next generation how to steal overpriced media.

not only that but
> watching show on platform
> suddenly fucking disappears the next day because lame shit licensing or some bullshit no one cares about outside of business faggots

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They were the only major news outlet with a streaming service. Imagine being so shit at what you do that even a monopoly isn't enough to make money.

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At least this cant happen with games because there's very few big game companies compared to TV/movie companies. If Capcom or Ubisoft try to do their own subscription program (I think Ubisoft is trying and failing already) it's not gonna survive. Only Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and EA are big enough to potentially make it work.

Nah, we're too far for it to die entirely, but there's definitely going to be major shifts in how it's handled, and unfortunately in how much major companies make them less consumer friendly. It's very rare for a pioneer in a new field to last forever, and Netflix looks no different.

GamePass already has a very positive reception and has reinvigorated the Xbox brand for Microsoft. I think subscription services will continue to be normalized, especially with Sony and (to an extent) Nintendo trying to get into it now. Just hope that we still see plenty of options to acquire games outside of them. Streaming will likely become normalized in the coming decades, but it's too early for it to actually be practical right now.

There's nothing new worth torrenting or subscribing to anyway.

I think the time now, where you can get GP and play a gazillion games for basically nothing, will be thought of like that beautiful time when cutting the cord made total sense and saved a ton of money with no downside.

Honestly the worst is Peacock, who is selling a $5 monthly service for people to watch the seven good seasons of The Office and nothing else

Wasn't the whole point of Peacock that it was free?

They made a streaming service just before the merger with discovery which already has 2 streaming services. They need 2M subscribers at the end of the year to become profitable, they have 10k after a month. New management pulls the plug immediately.

They added a premium tier which also has exclusive content.

No, the whole point of Peacock was to remake Hulu because NBC sold off Hulu prior to the big streaming boom and regretted it.

I hope this kills Xbox Gamepass

Working at a bar, I can tell you Peacock is the least shit streaming thing out there for sports.
Fubo TV literally wants $100/m to watch fucking south american football

I wonder if streaming (as in video game streamers) might actually be hurting the streaming (TV shows) industry. There's literally millions of millenials and zoomers watching that stuff, and I gotta think they're less willing to pay for Netflix if they can watch some anime girl play minecraft for free.

what happens to netflix exclusive shows like the devilman reboot when the service dies ?

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Every customer only has 24 hours in the day. In that sense, even playing vidya is competition to Netflix.

I've read some stuff about what modern cartoon channels are doing and yes, this is the case. It's also the reason the only shows that are made anymore are comedies, because "If a kid wants action they'll just play a video game/watch someone play a video game."

Youtube is also probably contributing to it as well. why waste 20 dollars a month to watch a shitty one-sided documentary when you can watch a more objective amateur one on youtube for free?

Uh, yes? Where do you think people are going to watch The Office, Friends, etc.? Also, do I have to mention that alternatives to those, which are basically extensions of network television, exist? The reason why Netflix got big in the first place?

Me too, it would put an end to crossplay on PC and it would cause Microsoft to lock their games on Xbox again.

Torrent sites will once again serve as archivists.

that will never not piss me off
>pay some 80 dollars for hulu
>it only works half the time
>the other half get some error that asks me to scan a QR code for details
>ads out the ass lasting some 2 minutes
>start and end usually in the middle of the show almost like it forgets it needs to start showing ads which are usually the same 4 or 5 anyway for ripoff "delivered to your door" boxes
it is all so tiring...

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>more objective
fucking kek

They remain torrentable until the internet gets nuked

>597707445

No, games are interactive and having 300-500ms delay in button presses isn't acceptable even in turn based games.

Like they didn't know adding ads and cracking down on membership sharing would start to kill the industry. That's why people left cable, and now, they've shot themselves in the foot and are whining about it.

>597707445
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>when you can watch a more objective amateur one on youtube for free?
they are always more interesting to and because they aren't some bloated million $$$ project the creators have way more creative freedom to pursue niche interests so you see documentarys on literally the smallest things ever.
i watched an entire history of new coca-cola and then curtailed into another one about some chess machine from the lates 90's and both were equally enjoyable.

I was going to say how stupid of them to put their core propaganda under a paywall but considering their audience and the 10.000 people actually paying... now it makes sense. They were just too greedy.

compared that absolute shit "nobody speaks" Netflix one to even something like down the rabbit hole and you'll see what I meant by that.

Good, now lets hope it happens to vidya subscriptions like game pass and PS+

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They made a shitty streaming service that people had to pay for when literally no one would even want to pay for regular CNN. A big part of the story that gets overlooked is that the CEO consulted with """"professional experts"""" that predicted the service would get millions of subs in it's first year when any random person off the street would have told him it's a stupid idea that no one will pay for. It shines a light on how much money is wasted on large consulting firms that give these kinds predictions keep getting basic shit wrong.

Netflix dies in favour of what? Other streaming services? There's no escaping this future.

You'd be surprised. Guys like Lemmino can make documentaries that rival Netflix level with a budget anywhere from $0 to a couple hundred or in the low thousands.

Xbox cucks told me that streaming is ThE FuTuRe Of ViDyA
Cry more, Colt Eastwood.

The absolute state of gaslighting media kikes.

Fox News has that fox nation shit that does pretty well for itself and has for years. They probably thought they'd be able to get in on that, but FNC has a bunch of shitty personalities that the people who watch that channel always want to see more from.
CNN had... larry king, who's dead. They paid big for chris wallace thinking he'd be a big draw to CNN+, but that was a fail, and otherwise it was a bunch of literal whos and wolf blitzer. Wolf Blitzer is a fine porn name, but nobody gives a shit about him otherwise either.
Honestly, it'd probably still be going if CNN hadn't been taken over. Whoever was behind that shit was a buffoon who had no idea what they were doing. Discoveryfags knew right away the service was retarded and the literal first thing they did was shut the shit down.

the gaming industry mirrors this

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>the layers of comedy

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This just sounds like a PC problem which can fuck off and die already. Valve ruined and killed the PC gaming industry just as much as piracy did.

Backing liberals is a monetary fools game, any company who does in hopes of monetary gains has become blind to the fact that they're courting the same dipshits who HATE paying for things.

Good, back to physical games. Fuck digital and streaming.

All the niggas think they got the clout of the Weather Channel until they try to run their shit only to find out how big and thick the Weather Channel dick really is.