Report: Amazon to Announce Game Streaming Service in 2020 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 December 2019 / 2,582 Views
Google streaming service, Google Stadia, is available now and Microsoft is slowly working on its xCloud streaming service, which will launch in 2020 with Game Pass support. Sony's PlayStation Now service has been available for sometime now.
Amazon is set to enter the game streaming service ring sometime in 2020, according to a report on CNET. Two sources familiar with Amazon plans say the company has started recruiting people from other large companies like Microsoft to help launch the Amazon game streaming service.
Amazon is hiring a job in a "new initiative" in its Amazon Web Services team, which the two sources say are involved with the game streaming 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," reads one job posting.
Another job postings says Amazon wants to "drive innovative new use cases like machine vision and game streaming."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I hope they have the same success I hope for Google Stadia, none.
Why? How would Amazon or Google being successful in gaming possibly hurt you in any way?
Every step towards all digital future is one I don't like.
Okay. But, that doesn't explain how Amazon being successful with streaming hurts you.
Would you say that digital and streaming increase in this century haven't harmed physical movies at all?
Would you deny that now with more companies doing streaming even streaming started hurting for customer now that you can't sign a single provider and have good diverse content instead needing 10 different sources?
I understand your first point. But, I think you're looking at it the wrong way. The issue isn't physical versus digital. The issue is access to movies. And, in that regard, we still have DVDs for everything, but now we also have the ability to buy or rent digitally. So, while fewer DVDs are sold, there's still as much or more available to consumers on DVD.
On your second point, I absolutely disagree. The consumer has benefitted greatly by competition in streaming. We have much, much more content available, many more choices of price points, and ways to signal which providers we like. The customer does not have to sign up to more than one provider. We now get more content that we did a decade ago even if we only subscribe to one of them.
Sorry that is not how it seems here. When Netflix arrived I could get much more and better content on it alone than today you would with 3 different services.
Ahh shit, here we go again
Competition always benefits the consumer. I hope Amazon delivers an awesome product, and pushes the industry forward.
Well, they've certainly got the infrastructure for it and they've been experimenting with games for a while, now. Could become a decent competitor.
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