According to Bloomberg, Cable companies will soon start streaming games. How soon ? 2013-2014.
Apparently, they are interested in getting some of the big money the gaming industry has been creating for the last few years. The article says "Sony Corp. (6758), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Nintendo Co. have helped to build a market worth $24.1 billion in the U.S. in 2011, according to NPD Group Inc."
“Everybody has a TV,” said Atul Bagga, a video-games analyst at Lazard Capital Markets in San Francisco. Cable and phone companies are “looking for new ways to monetize their users and gaming can be pretty compelling,” he said.
It will be interesting to follow for sure, with companies like AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner Cable, Comcast and Cox all interested in selling games through their cable service.
If this is all true, we could be looking at a very different future in gaming.
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-25/xbox-challenged-as-cable-plots-to-make-consoles-obsolete.html
Last year, I commented on the Intranet on a post about Freebox, I talked about Onlive and how we should bring it to our Network. I was asked to try to see with Onlive what was the possibilities.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, They lack two major aspect : Communication and customer care. No wonder they filled bankrupcy last month.
Yesterday I e-mailed back in La boite a idee du Président on the Intranet on why and how we should come with our own game streaming service, and fast. Anyone working at Videotron should as well promote the idea in Masses.