Video games are often technologically advanced, but sometimes the industry emulates the leadership established elsewhere. For example, people call services like Xbox Game Pass "Netflix of Gaming" because, although delivery systems and technologies are completely different, the end result is much the same: simple, easily accessible content by eliminating physical media or digital downloads Stream allows you to enjoy old favorites and discover new ones for a fixed fee.
The next generation of consoles doesn't seem to make a concrete transition as quickly as we used to. Microsoft has suggested that the Xbox Series X will not offer any exclusive games for about a year or so-which makes sense given the company's commitment to building more ecosystems across traditional hardware generations.
However, this and the recent scandals in other technical areas surprised me: With the power of Project XCloud's streaming and Game Pass, can Xbox One owners eventually continue to stream Xbox X-series exclusive games through streaming? Or is there an arbitrary boundary where only the next generation of owners can play the next generation of games through XCloud? As the traditional boundaries between generations are clearly blurred, a new boundary will eventually have to be drawn. Where will it be? When? How bold and final should that line be? Perhaps most importantly, problems like this may define the next generation.
I love smart devices, and I ’ve been investing in the Sonos ecosystem for a long time; high-quality, exquisite speakers with Wi-Fi links that allow me to rotate records on the turntable in the living room and turn them on while cooking It is piped to the kitchen or rescheduled to seamlessly sync Spotify playlists across multiple rooms. Cool stuff. But last week, it became less cool for many people as Sonos announced that it would stop supporting a range of products in May.
Almost immediately there was legitimate protest. People spend tens of thousands of dollars on this ecosystem just to make things look like a whimper. The upgrade procedure provides a 30% discount on replacement items, but this does not mitigate the possibility of a blow. If you don't want to pay a 70% upgrade for the retail price, then you will have a blocked system because the network containing the old devices that have stopped supporting will continue to operate, but no devices on that network will get new updates and features-even Not a brand new feature.
Of course, the world of smart speakers is very different from video games, but as we enter this generation, the industry seems to be moving towards a continuously backward-compatible ecosystem, and old input devices and accessories will continue to function, and people have to Doubt whether we are moving in the same anger. Compared to most people, gamers are more accustomed to the pace of advancement, content agitation and timeless reality, but as goal posts move to this generation, expectations will rise.
No doubt this day is coming, and the growing Xbox Live or PlayStation Network may need to deny access to older computers-and as far as I know, this is not an area or problem with a great solution-that's why Sonos must not Don't apologize and write to the CEO to appease the mob. The point is that when you promise to build a magical large-scale ecosystem, everything can work in perfect harmony and harmony, and such a system cannot be maintained forever, especially in the needs of hardcore users and the economic needs of shareholders to ensure new Technology continues to continually and additional functions that increase boundaries. In the end, people will be forced to make the best decisions, which will leave people at best out of the ecosystem, and at worst make them angry. When many of the next generation's products are sold with similar promises, one has to think about-how long did the wheels fall off for the first time? ten years? More, less?
Just like the question about the future of streaming and the preservation of video games, the next generation raises an interesting question about how we play old games and hardware years later-the continued chaos in the smart speaker space is a strange warning story .
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