wraggster
January 17th, 2012, 23:31
CLOUD GAMING EUROPE: Valve platform must streamline for widest audience, says Gaikai exec
The entire games landscape could change if Valve’s PC platform significantly improved how accessible it is to new customers, the CEO of a leading cloud gaming firm has said.
In a discussion point filled with caveats about how “brilliant and important” Steam is to the industry, Gaikai CEO David Perry nevertheless believes Valve’s core games platform should undergo a series of enhancements to appeal to new customers.
“The whole games industry could improve dramatically if Steam moved away from old tactics,” he said. “Steam still has far too much friction.”
Speaking at the Cloud Gaming Europe event in London, Perry provided a video demonstration of all the hurdles a player had to overcome to play PC game demo through Steam.
And although he laced his talk with how much respect he had for Valve, his demonstration pulled no punches.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/39515/Make-Steam-simple-and-gaming-could-explode
The entire games landscape could change if Valve’s PC platform significantly improved how accessible it is to new customers, the CEO of a leading cloud gaming firm has said.
In a discussion point filled with caveats about how “brilliant and important” Steam is to the industry, Gaikai CEO David Perry nevertheless believes Valve’s core games platform should undergo a series of enhancements to appeal to new customers.
“The whole games industry could improve dramatically if Steam moved away from old tactics,” he said. “Steam still has far too much friction.”
Speaking at the Cloud Gaming Europe event in London, Perry provided a video demonstration of all the hurdles a player had to overcome to play PC game demo through Steam.
And although he laced his talk with how much respect he had for Valve, his demonstration pulled no punches.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/39515/Make-Steam-simple-and-gaming-could-explode