Current Trend
Streaming Services/Cloud Gaming
Project:
Cloud Gaming
Cloud Gaming is a major trend in the games industry.
Why I have chosen this topic.
I for one personally wanted to choose Cloud Gaming because it's one of my main interests in the current ongoing trends of the game indsutry and it's a well known trend in itself. On top of that, this would enhance my research skills, writing techniques and (hopefully) produce a well written blog with facts, statistics and referencing.
Cloud VR will become the next step in cloug gaming earlier than we expect it to be due to the 5G and fast and efficient data. Technology should not be underestimated at all thanks to its ridiculous pacing of advancement within Technology and the emerging technologies behind it.
Cloud Gaming boasts huge potential to become a very profitable and accessible part of the market as the trend progress in global revenue. I.e PlayStation Now’s price decrease and Google Stadia. On the consumers end you have price collisions (I.e Data Caps and amounts of Data used) and downfalls of the revenue such as price expenses, data caps (US being the main revenue) and popularity.
Originally, I had picked two ideas for a unique essay; VR and Cloud Gaming. However that was scrapped due to the standards for the essay itself.
Reference links: Here are the links which is split into 2 sections: Cloud Gaming and Miscellaneous
Cloud Gaming
GeForce Now: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/20-series/rtx/
PlayStation Now: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-now/
Shadow: https://shadow.tech/gben
What we need to know about the current state of cloud gaming: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-current-state-of-cloud-gaming/
What is cloud gaming?: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18683382/what-is-cloud-gaming-google-stadia-microsoft-xcloud-faq-explainer
Google Stadia: https://store.google.com/product/stadia
Statistics for the Cloud Gaming Market(s): https://www.statista.com/statistics/932758/cloud-gaming-market-world/
Top player industry demands for Cloud Gaming: https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/cloud-gaming-market-2019-global-industry-share-demand-top-players-industry-size-future-growth-by-2025-research-reports-world-2019-05-06
Google Stadia could make billions: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-first-successful-cloud-gaming-platform-could-make-billions/
RTX Server Gaming: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/rtx-server-gaming/
How Google and Microsoft cloud gaming ambitions could conquer isp greed https://www.pcworld.com/article/3375205/data-caps-must-die-how-google-and-microsofts-cloud-gaming-ambitions-could-conquer-isp-greed.html
No Data Caps on Unlimited Broad Band https://www.money.co.uk/broadband/what-are-broadband-data-limits.htm
Miscellaneous
Bandwidth caps and Cloud Gaming
data usage on online video games
4K Streaming will use up 1TB of data in 60+ hours
Googles infrastructure on Google Edge Network
Google Data Center locations
Google to Spend $13B on US Data Center and Office Construction This Year
Killed by Google
Reddit:
Free Report: Cloud Gaming The Perfect Storm
Websites used:
Cloudwards
GeForce Now
Google Stadia
Independent
Inverse
Marketwatch
PC Gamer
PC World
Reuters
Shadow
Statista
The Verge
The Wired
YouTube
Videos Watched:
The Truth About Cloud Gaming - Performance & Input Lag Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_zjGAXs_8
Is a Cloud Gaming PC BETTER? - A Review of Shadow:
Google Stadia vs. Latency: How it Works - IGN First:
Google's Stadia Announcement at GDC 2019 in Under 14 Minutes
Missing Tons Of Features, Google Stadia Looks To Launch As Unfinished Trash
Finding more methods to further research materials I took route to the Learning Resources Centre in Nescot and found a magazine in which talked about Cloud Gaming. There I would print off multiple pages about Google Stadia as PDF files.
I also looked into Data Centers to find out how many Google data centers exists in the world. Currently, there are 19 Google Data Centers in the world. However, more Google Data Centers are going to be built due to the amount of interest within Google Stadia itself. (Insert image of data centers here)
One major concern for google Stadia which is in question is that; will it flop or will it be a huge success? I looked into a page called "killed by google" and it shows a ridiculous and absurd amount of Intellectual Properties killed by Google. If you're curious as to what google has killed I'll leave a link here: https://killedbygoogle.com/ With all this investment for google stadia, there are major concerns. i.e revenue and profits in google.
References and Cites used:
Android Central. (2019). What internet speeds are recommended to stream PlayStation Now games?. [online] Available at: https://www.androidcentral.com/what-internet-speeds-are-recommended-stream-playstation-now-games [Accessed 27 Nov. 2019].
Bradley, A. (2019). Google Stadia bandwidth requirements - what kind of connection will you need to stream games?. [online] gamesradar. Available at: https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/google-stadia-bandwidth-requirement/ [Accessed 27 Nov. 2019].
Cloudwards. (2019). How Does Cloud Gaming Work? A Guide for 2019. [online] Available at: https://www.cloudwards.net/how-does-cloud-gaming-work/ [Accessed 27 Nov. 2019].
COGconnected. (2019). Playstation Now Demolishes EA Access and Xbox Game Pass, Raking in More Than 50% of All Subscription Revenue | COGconnected. [online] Available at: https://cogconnected.com/2018/11/playstation-now-demolishes-ea-access-xbox/ [Accessed 9 Dec. 2019].
Digital Trends. (2019). Everything we know about the Nvidia GeForce Now streaming service. [online] Available at: https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/nvidia-geforce-now-price-beta-features/ [Ac-cessed 2 Dec. 2019].
GamesIndustry.biz. (2019). PlayStation Now brought in $143 million last quarter - Report. [online] Available at: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-11-09-playstation-now-brought-in-usd143-million-last-quarter-report [Accessed 9 Dec. 2019].
Google Data Centers. (2019). Discover our data center locations. [online] Available at: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2019].
Khalid, A. (2019). Google Stadia highlights what’s wrong with broadband caps. [online] Quartz. Avail-able at: https://qz.com/1748962/google-stadia-highlights-whats-wrong-with-data-caps/ [Accessed 27 Nov. 2019].
Limelight.com. (2020). Market Research: The State of Online Gaming – 2019. [online] Available at: https://www.limelight.com/resources/white-paper/state-of-online-gaming-2019/ [Accessed 6 Jan. 2020].
Playstation. (2019). PlayStation®Now. [online] Available at: https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/playstation-now/?emcid=pa-no-215942&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqry72ZKX5gIVhrTtCh3s2A5oEAAYASAAEgJRFPD_BwE [Accessed 2 Dec. 2019].
Quertime.com. (2019). Top 10 Best Cloud Gaming Services to Play Online Games - Quertime. [online] Available at: https://www.quertime.com/article/top-best-cloud-gaming-services-to-play-online-games/ [Accessed 10 Dec. 2019].
Shop.shadow.tech. (2019). Shadow. [online] Available at: https://shop.shadow.tech/gben/pre-order [Accessed 2 Dec. 2019].
Store.google.com. (2019). Google Stadia - One place for all the ways we play. - Google Store. [online] Available at: https://store.google.com/product/stadia_learn [Accessed 2 Dec. 2019].
Surveymonkey.com. (2019). Log in to your account. [online] Available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/wVnLyhYDDFLaMO_2FTm3odko7WvbAweDFaI2pMr_2BhGVHqrv_2BuOjKfuOJ7a1R_2FEQtb0 [Accessed 9 Dec. 2019].
Here is a PDF of the essay for those that want to read it:
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