Publisher Assassin’s Creed, Team, Prince of Persia or Division believes in the cloud and expects streaming to revolutionize the gaming industry, just as it revolutionized the TV and film industries. This was stated by the CEO of Ubisoft, commenting on the partnership with Microsoft.
Yves Guillemot in an interview with the Financial Times, he remembers Netflix. “When Netflix announced it was going into streaming, its stock plummeted and its plan came under a lot of criticism. Today we see how he turned out. The same will happen with games, although it will still take some time. But once it starts, it will be very fast.” – said Guillemot. He is convinced that in the next five to ten years, many games will be streamed and produced in the cloud.. Microsoft Flight Simulator from Asobo takes its first significant steps in it, and Hideo Kojima, the author of Death Stranding, is creating a game in the cloud.
Guillemot’s opinion is confirmed by analysis. For example, Omdia estimates that cloud gaming services will generate $3.2 billion in revenue this year. While this represents only two percent of total consumer gaming spending, that number is expected to at least double over the next five years. If this happens, Ubisoft will become a sought-after company because it will have rights to Call of Duty, Diablo and other Activision Blizzard games.
Ubisoft is buying rights from Microsoft that will give it access to all Activision Blizzard games, including those already released, for the next 15 years. This is how Microsoft is addressing objections from the UK Competition and Markets Authority, which is concerned about the dominance of the Xbox owner. Ubisoft will have exclusive rights to stream Activision Blizzard games worldwide, excluding non-exclusive streaming rights in the European Economic Area. He will also offer them to subscribers Ubisoft+which will also worry us in Europe.
Source :Indian TV
