Phil Spencer: Amazon and Google are our main competition going forward.

[hanselthecaretaker]

Actually I'd expect Microsoft to have a much better shot than Google. Microsoft already has a system in place to transition to some kind of streaming service and much more experience with video games than Google. Something that I've thought of many times lately is Microsoft working with Nintendo to make them much better online capabilities.

MS and nintendo exist in completely different markets I think. MS is also completely dependent on 3rd party support, so whatever advantage they have over Google is quickly lost once this company is really going to flex it's muscle. Google is probably just testing the waters with stadia and waiting for 5G to be widely implemented before fully committing to it.

It will probably take some years but once it really takes off things will change fast. Just look at how quicky digital sales replaced physical once internet speeds increased.

Merely downloading is quite a bit different than playing a game at even 1080p 30fps let alone 60fps. I have 75Mb/s (actually it might be 100mb/s since my last contract IIRC) connection and still have streaming hiccups with stuff like Amazon Prime and Netflix, where you technically only need around 10mb/s to get HD quality.

 

[sXeth]

Actually I'd expect Microsoft to have a much better shot than Google. Microsoft already has a system in place to transition to some kind of streaming service and much more experience with video games than Google. Something that I've thought of many times lately is Microsoft working with Nintendo to make them much better online capabilities.

MS and nintendo exist in completely different markets I think. MS is also completely dependent on 3rd party support, so whatever advantage they have over Google is quickly lost once this company is really going to flex it's muscle. Google is probably just testing the waters with stadia and waiting for 5G to be widely implemented before fully committing to it.

It will probably take some years but once it really takes off things will change fast. Just look at how quicky digital sales replaced physical once internet speeds increased.

Merely downloading is quite a bit different than playing a game at even 1080p 30fps let alone 60fps. I have 75Mb/s (actually it might be 100mb/s since my last contract IIRC) connection and still have streaming hiccups with stuff like Amazon Prime and Netflix, where you technically only need around 10mb/s to get HD quality.

Even the high end of 5g also can't touch what existing physical connections can already do. So I don't know thats specifically relevant to the matter at hand either.


AS mobiles go, I'd bet actual money that most providers are shooting for the extreme low-end and will provide the same garbage infrastructure for 5g as they have for everything else in most places. So (based on existing deployments so far), 25-100mbs, and probably also full of holes in coverage.

(Thats ignoring the inevitable slowdown as people move to the bands and interference baloons, alongside innate interference problem like 5g sharing its frequency with rainstorms)

 

[Yoshi178]

Sure they are the main competition.

MS just finally realized they can't beat Sony and got even more embarrassed when Nintendo overtook them.