Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry hitmaker Ubisoft[1] is of the opinion that the next generation of consoles such as the PS5[2] and next Xbox[3] will be the last. Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot claims that game consoles have one generation left before being supplanted by the ability to stream games on platform-agnostic devices. He believes it would give Ubisoft the opportunity to reach a wider user base. While great in theory, it would be interesting to see how it would be executed considering major companies have issues getting simple video live streams running without a hitch in 2018.
"I think we will see another generation, but there is a good chance that step-by-step we will see less and less hardware," Guillemot said[4] to Variety. “With time, I think streaming will become more accessible to many players and make it not necessary to have big hardware at home.
"There will be one more console generation and then after that, we will be streaming, all of us."
According to him, that the ability to stream AAA games to more screens was one of the biggest innovations coming in the game industry.
"It is going to help the AAA game industry grow much faster,” he said. “We have to work on the accessibility of those games, to make sure they can be played on any device, but the fact that we will be able to stream those games on mobile phones and television screens without a console is going to change a lot of the industry."
He thinks that experiments such as Nvidia’s GeForce Now will continue to evolve and become legitimate options.
"There are quite a few people that...