Amazon's Cloud Gaming Service Could Arrive Next Year With Twitch Integration

According to CNET, Amazon is planning to announce a cloud gaming service next year, and it may offer integration with Twitch and its other services. From the report: It's begun recruiting people from large game companies like Microsoft to help with the launch, as well as hiring for jobs in a "new initiative" within its Amazon Web Services team, which sources said is involved in Amazon's future gaming service. "We believe the evolution that began with arcade communities a quarter at a time, growing to the live streams and e-sports of today, will continue to a future where everyone is a gamer and every gamer can create, compete, collaborate and connect with others at massive scales," one job posting this month showed. And in at least one other job posting, the company said it wants to "drive innovative new use cases like machine vision and game streaming."

Amazon said in yet another job posting that it plans to integrate its new initiative with Twitch and the company's other services. The Information earlier reported on Amazon's plans, citing a possible launch next year. Industry insiders believe Amazon's plans for a future video game service are a foregone conclusion, despite struggles in its game-making studios, which saw layoffs earlier this year. Instead, these people cite the company's sprawling $119 per year Prime subscription empire, which already includes music streaming, lauded video projects like The Man in the High Castle, free grocery delivery and more.

Game Streaming Exists For ONE Reason Only

[dryriver]

And that reason is to get impressionable 5 to 18 year old youths used to the IDEA of using software RUNNING anywhere EXCEPT on your own hardware. The ultimate in SAAS in other words. You get NOTHING for your money - no digital download, no software discs, no save or config files, no box, no manual, no nothing. You pay 60 Dollars per game and own NOTHING. You can resell NOTHING. When you stop paying your RENT your game or software collection goes POOF - up in smoke. And when you GROW INTO AN ADULT WORKING IN AN OFFICE in 2028, well, you OWN OR CONTROL NOTHING EITHER. Your CAD design software runs on a remote server. Your programming IDE and COMPILER runs on a remote server. Your OFFICE SUITE runs on a remote server. Your 3D RENDER ENGINE runs on a remote server. Your entire DIGITAL FUCKING LIFE is essentially no longer under your CONTROL, OWNERSHIP or ADMINISTRATION. This is the sole reason GAME STREAMING is so FUCKING ATTRACTIVE to these companies. STEP 1 - tie all games to a DRM cloud client like STEAM, UPLAY, ORIGIN. This step was successful. STEP 2 - take THAT AWAY too and run the games COMPLETELY in the CLOUD as well. This will happen in the next 5 years. STEP 3 - congratulations, you are a GROWN ADULT who is UNABLE to BUY OR OWN OR CONTROL ANYTHING SOFTWARE related anymore. Because you WERE NOT AROUND IN THE 1980s AND 1990s, YOU THINK THIS IS "JUST THE WAY THE WORLD IS". There is no BIG PROFIT in game streaming. The big FINANCIAL PAYOFF is YOU spending YOUR ENTIRE FUTURE LIFE being dependent ON HIGHLY MONETIZED REMOTE SERVER COMPUTING. How much is that worth to the tech industry? TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE NEXT 30 years. You are SLAVE who has to PAY WHATEVER IS ASKED. I wouldn't be surprised if "COMPUTERS" are marketed in the future that have VIRTUALLY NO STORAGE CAPACITY built into them, save for a measly few Gigs required to run the OS of the device. The whole thing is about ENSLAVING THE USER. Us old farts won'y buy into this, so they have to go PEDO and INDOCTRINATE THE YOUNG that THIS IS SIMPLY THE WAY COMPUTING WORKS NOW AND FOREVER. You do that WITH GAMES while they are YOUNG.

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[dryriver]

Take your MASONIC INVERSION technique elsewhere please. You guys failed miserably to take over the world with little Adolf and his brown bunny men, and you shall fail to take over the world with WOKE TECH as well.

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[Dunbal]

If Google's "Stadia" is anything to judge by, you'll be paying for lag, screen freezes, stuttering and low frame rates.

you can play real pinball streaming and the lag!!!

[Joe_Dragon]

you can play real pinball streaming and the lag!!! is killer.

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[dryriver]

Quantum Internet and 5G wireless will take care of the lag. Who says that optical fiber or copper wire is the only way to stream games?

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[Joe_Dragon]

hit you cap in less then an week.

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[Nidi62]

Quantum Internet and 5G wireless will take care of the lag. Who says that optical fiber or copper wire is the only way to stream games?

American ISPs. Although they'll charge you as if you were using 5G or quantum internet.

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[Rockoon]

Is that what negative latency looks like?

Re: Game Streaming Exists For ONE Reason Only

[AmazingRuss]

Whatever shall they do without those scraps of cardboard and plastic?  Their lives shall come to an end if they canâ€(TM)t play every game theyâ€(TM)ve ever played at an instantâ€(TM)s notice!!!

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[Anonymous Dotter]

So.. with the upcoming release of Stadia.. I see this as a way for other companies to close the gap on streaming game service mainly to create competition in a space for services no one really wants. This will make.. what.. 4 different companies now that are doing this? I think these companies would have better odds catering to a younger demographic with microtransactions as popular games such as Apex Legends, Fortnite, and many others have proven.

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[prokop]

Jesus man have a nap or something

Maybe the streaming case makes more sense?

[SuperKendall]

For Twitch streaming games, I suppose it makes more sense that someone like Amazon collects the data to stream at the server side instead of having to have it go outbound over your own connection...

It seems like then you could potentially have much higher quality Twitch streams.

However, it ignores the input lag and has all the same issues with hitting bandwidth caps that Stadia has...

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[lgw]

The launch could hardly go worse than Stadia's. OTOH, will Amazon have a gender neutral controller, like Stadia? (If you're wondering what the heck makes a controller gender neutral, apparently that means you can get one in green. Really.)

The best part about game streaming is it lets a whole new generation experience "nobody pick up the phone, I'm dialed in to the internet!" Except now of course it's: no one else can watch any streaming video while you're trying to play.

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[Anonymous Dotter]

I don't think anything could be worse than Stadia's release though I could be wrong.

Another failed game streaming service incoming.

[engineer37]

Video games are not movies or TV shows. What works for TV and movies just doesn't work for games. The industry is not the same, the products are not the same, and what works isn't the same. No one benefits from game streaming. Not players, not developers, no one... other than big companies like Amazon. Except that Amazon isn't going to benefit either because this is going to tank, hard. Just like all the others. No one asked for game streaming and no one wants it. I've said it before and I'll say it again,