Sony Computer Entertainment’s $380 million acquisition of cloud gaming provider Gaikai suggests Sony’s future may not be in any piece of proprietary hardware but in a cloud delivery platform that brings PlayStation games to any connected device.
The console era is over — or so a growing number of game-industry executives would have us believe. Social gaming, which doesn’t require the intense processing power consoles do, has been lauded as the shape of things to come. But the recent decimation of social game leader Zynga, which now serves 294 million users every month, fogs the future of the game industry, especially since social games no longer offer the explosive growth they did a year ago. Only two months ago Zynga counted 333 million monthly active users, so the company has experienced a 12 percent decline in its user base.
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