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Assassin's Creed Odyssey Cloud Edition coming to Switch in Japan
- Thread starter GSR
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Game prices are not standardized in Japan in any way, really. Lots of very expensive releases over there.
It's dominant in the sense that there are no other high end consoles to compete with it, but as far as the overall videogame market is concerned it's not dominant at all. By the end of their respective lifespan there will be a gap between 10 to 15 millions in term of install base between Switch and PS4.
The pricing is what gets me. The fiber infrastructure exists here in the US.
There are people who beat a game in less than 6 months, delete it off their hard drive, and never touch it again. This isn't too crazy.
Really interesting idea. I wonder if this will be successful. Maybe if it comes West, but I don't see AC thriving in Japan.
Honestly, this interests me because of how much I disliked PS Now. I paid for the service for a month and it was a pretty terrible experience, so I am curious to see how this goes.
And, before anyone says it is a connectivity issue, I have a solid 100mbs up&down and the PC is wired directly in via Ethernet.
Don't know why this would not come to the west, OnLive was great for me and that was over 5 years ago, I know everbody doesnt have great net speeds, but streaming can work fine, I played through LA Noire Borderlands and Deus ex on OnLive.
This would be a great test for a streaming service on Switch, Ubisoft been hyping up streaming future bring this to the west, but I hope they dont do the rental thing like Capcom it makes no sense at full price.
oh I see its for over 2 years, wasnt Capcom like 2 months lol
This would be a great test for a streaming service on Switch, Ubisoft been hyping up streaming future bring this to the west, but I hope they dont do the rental thing like Capcom it makes no sense at full price.
oh I see its for over 2 years, wasnt Capcom like 2 months lol
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I had a 100 MBPS directly wired as well in California. It worked like a dream. I liked it so much I got it for a year. However, it didn't justify the cost so I didn't renew since I was working. Either my gaming habits have to change or I will have to go on hiatus. I have a huge library going to waste.
My guess is that the service has it's servers located in Japan only...
Yeah, as much as I rip on how bad Doom is on switch it's still far better than streaming. Literally anything is a better option than streaming a game.
I just hope these Cloud Editions are not the secret golden gifts for western countries and they have been testing them in Japan to see if they run well enough
My guess is:
Ubisoft has gone on record saying that they are investing in technology for streaming their games like this. The tech is not fully there yet, but far along enough to see live testing. They need a large enough title to generate interest (trying it out with something like Grow Home wouldn't yield a large enough sample), but can't jeopardize the launch of an Assassin's Creed game... in the west. But I'm guessing AC isn't that large is Japan, and Japan has the infrastructure to support the technology.
I really wish the west would get these cloud versions. I'm a big supporter of game streaming. Happy PS Now subscriber here.
streaming services are nice. Playstation now is nice on the PC, but playing it on high resolution hardware is a nasty mess visually. Streaming on the switch hardware in undock mode could hide a lot of nasty visual effects from streaming.
Well I mean, you could be one of the many, many people who can't afford multiple games consoles?
It would get so much bad press. Cloud gaming isn't where it needs to be in the US for this to work, and pricing this at full retail price for a game license that expires. Yeugh.
Fuck the US, bring it to Europe where people will understand that cloud gaming is an acceptable compromise for a system that couldn't run those games otherwise.
Nintendo just needs to get a Switch Pro out. It's fairly obvious third parties want to put their PS4/XB1 content onto Switch, it's just too hard for some titles.
The sooner the Switch Pro is out the sooner there can be a flood of content like this.
We're already through 2018 almost, by late 2019-to mid 2020 the time should be ripe for Switch Pro.
The sooner the Switch Pro is out the sooner there can be a flood of content like this.
We're already through 2018 almost, by late 2019-to mid 2020 the time should be ripe for Switch Pro.
Can be a resource issue too. Why port RE7 when you could for example put that staff to help work on say ... Resident Evil Revelations 3.
I can only imagine how horrible of an experience this is.
My use of the Nvidia Shield was mixed at best. Good luck.
My use of the Nvidia Shield was mixed at best. Good luck.
Maybe it's my location then (PA) . But the amount of artifacts and lag made everything unplayable.
It is, as someone that is playing from a non supported region on the Shield TV, it's incredible how good it runs. I have a PS4 Pro and a gaming PC and I can without a doubt say that for me it is already good enough to play single player games like DMC, RE7, Batman AK.
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That's not a solution. Well, even if it is, it's just a temporary one. Remember that PS5 and XB2 are coming soon.
They need a Switch 2 for next-gen, if they want to provide more high fidelity AAA 3rd party games to their audience.
I personally don't think even if PS5/Scarlett launch in 2020 that there's going to be a ton of PS5/Scarlett only content for a while. Devs are gonna hedge their bets and continue to make cross-gen titles for a while and a Switch Pro could really benefit from that (ie: GTAVI and FF7 Remake perhaps?).
Then by 2023 or 2024 they could launch a Switch 2 as more devs have shifted over to PS5/Scarlett only. I think that would work best.
But then, it means that there will be Switch Pro exclusive games which would end up splitting the Switch community. The main premise of these mid-gen refresh consoles are to give option for people to play games at a better image quality (and performance), not to lock the majority of its audience from accessing certain games because people who buy Pro consoles are always been the minority. However, I'm aware that Nintendo have done this before with their New 3DS. So maybe they could just do that, who knows.
I personally think it's crazy to charge the same price if the performance is not EXACTLY the same as having it on the system. There is a reason why streaming services like Playstation Now are fairly cheap.
I mentioned awhile ago you were going to start to see more and more of this tech approach to getting premium 3rd party content on Switch