• @SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    I think you’re saying it showed it could work. Where others are saying a success on the sense of a viable product that can make enough money to operate and, ideally, to be profitable.

    And unfortunately when it comes to a service that requires servers, bandwidth and staff to maintain and operate it then there has to be a certain threshold of users to make it profitable or else it is doomed to fail.

    • @Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      But it did I work. I used it. Many other used it. It was cloud gaming. What hadn’t been accomplished before.

      That was an issue. However many companies aren’t profitable in their first few years. The toll out was a complete mess. Also as stated they chose wrong. I get why they picked murica. Infrastructure was always going to be an issue but that’s not where you get people looking to save money and not buy a console. Third world would have been the sweet spot. A rig they can play red dead for pennies.

      They opened it up to phones and with Enough bandwidth you could play games you’d never manage before.

      Yes but long run. Nobody thought Google was going to saunter in and beat the big Bois. Takes time to build a playerbase get the product actually working and improve it. None of that happened in first year.