Apparently the concept is heating up. But I don\u2019t think people realize how expensive being the Netflix of something is.<\/p>\n
Netflix is $8.4B in the red. That\u2019s right now, at the height of their near-monopoly, at the highest point of their brand. Minus 8 billion dollars. Netflix only distributes videos and they spent 12 billion dollars in 2018 to buy or create content. That\u2019s absurd and insane. It\u2019s like me right now buying a 2-story house in Brentwood with money I don\u2019t have and everyone would be like \u201cduuuuuude fuck yeahh!!!!!!\u201d and I would buy 3 others with my friends\u2019 money while feeling super confident. That\u2019s craziness.<\/p>\n
Can y\u2019all slow down the madness? Seriously.<\/p>\n
A Netflix for games would also probably need way more bandwidth. Especially with big games. Final Fantasy 15 in 4K is 85 motherfucking gigs. 85 GB. They say watching Netflix consumes about 1GB\/hour. For just one big game, say 40 GB, you would be able to watch 40 hours of Netflix. GTA5 is 75 GB. The numbers are talking and screaming in your face \u201cLOL\u201d. Also, anyone outside big cities would never be able to play recent games due to not-perfect connections? It\u2019s already bad, that would make the situation far worse.<\/p>\n
And if you think that you\u2019ll be able to have people spend additional money while they already pay for the \u201call you can eat\u201d model, think again. Netflix grew because it\u2019s cheap. And if you think that people will pay a monthly fee to play 2D games that they can play in a bazillion ways already, think again. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s not even that it\u2019s going to be though, It’s that it\u2019s unsustainable as fuck. I don\u2019t understand the appeal, the \u201cchallenge\u201d to push for even more convenience. There are people with their lives at stake behind all that. And if game developers\u2019 only chance to reach an audience is through three or two streaming services, it\u2019s going to be the end for 90% of us. <\/p>\n
I sure don\u2019t want that at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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