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Larian founder: "Streaming an important technology for modern games"

Swen Vincke spoke about Baldur's Gate III and Stadia in a recent interview, including how streaming can fit in with gaming.

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Baldur's Gate III and Stadia are already closely intertwined, as Larian Studios' RPG was revealed during a Stadia stream, and now studio founder Swen Vincke has spoken in an interview with Wccftech about Stadia, which he thinks will be a lot more of an evolution than the new consoles and the inclusion of features like SSDs.

"To be fair, people have SSDs in their PCs already, so it's not that much of a revolution," he said. "Streaming is a very important technology for modern games, so the faster you can stream your data, you can put more of it, and you're going to have higher quality assets, which is pretty much what everybody expects there to be. The big questions are going to be how much memory do you get to actually do that? Is there sufficient memory to fool around with? How much CPU power are we getting? Because that's also important, but it's the classic things that we see with every generation. I mean, how much GPU power do we get? But at the end of the day, it's always going to be more, it's going to be more detailed, it's going to allow us to do more accurate simulations."

"I think that the more interesting question is how stuff like Google Stadia will change things. It gives developers something different. In the data center, these machines are connected to each other, and so you could start thinking of doing things like elastic rendering, like make a couple of servers together, to do physics simulations that may not be possible on current local hardware. I think you'll see a lot of evolution in this direction."

He also had a rather interesting analogy when it comes to subscription services as well:

"When talking about subscription services, somebody reminded me of the scene in Star Wars where the Palpatine is about to rise to become the Emperor and then he says that this is how democracy ends. So I'm not really sure that subscription services are a good thing for the developers. They are good for players, as they initially give a wide range of games. But the problem is the same one many have with Netflix: for example, I started watching like a million series, but I don't see any to the end anymore. And if this is going to be the case for games as well, I don't think that it will be a good thing. The only ones that benefit from subscription services are the really the big blockbuster. So I'm not really sure if the small ones are going to be able to break through on the subscription services, because we will be super dependent on the provider of the subscription service and what he puts on the front page, so I don't think it's a good idea at all that power is given to only a few key players."

How do you feel about industry trends with subscription services and streaming?

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