Playcast revelation: How cloud gaming works and profits

According to foreign media reports, as the game industry's important development direction, the cloud gaming industry has begun to emerge. Playcast is the world's leading cloud gaming company, its board member Gadi Tross (Gadi Tirosh) has been interviewed to explain the operation of cloud games and profit model.

Jadi is a partner of the top Israeli venture capital JVP (Jerusalem Venture Partners) and a board member of the Playcast company. Playcast is a pioneer in cloud gaming, which began offering services to players in Paris, Portugal, Singapore and South Korea last year. JVP is one of Playcast's investors, and JVP is considered Israel's most successful venture capital company. Other investors in Playcast include MK Capital, Xenia Venture and C.mer team.

Recently, Jadi interviewed the readers about Playcast's operation and profitability. The following is the original interview:

When did playcast in France?

Bouygues EADS last July launched Playcast to its high-end broadband gateway/set-top box bbox sensation, and has offered the same services to its old users.

What is the penetration rate of playcast?

Playcast is still in the early stages of development, but preliminary analysis shows its potential is enormous. At least 1 of every 10 trial users are eventually enrolled in the Playcast service.

Can you describe how Playcast works?

Its mode of operation is: the game that runs on the remote server will transmit the screen to the user's device through the set-top box, the user can interact through the handle. At the beginning, the user can navigate to the game channel via the remote control and then play our game. Once the user has ordered the game, we will provide them with a handle. The game experience is similar to operating a real video game. At the same time, the score list will be published. The effect of playing games on TV is significant to the user.

Now playcast have any games to choose from?

Playcast works with many game publishers, including Capcom, Codemasters, Atari, Disney, Sega, THQ and Warner Bros. The games we offer are Street Fighter, Sonic Generation (Sonic Generations), Batman-Forrest Gump (Batman–arkham City), National Defense (Homefront), Fighter 2 test Drive Unlimited 2) and Lego Batman (Lego Batman).

Who is the gamer?

This statistic is very interesting about who is using our services and who often use our services-they are not hardcore players or professional players. The objects we serve are called "neutral players". In France, our business began to heat up around four o'clock in the afternoon, as schoolchildren returned home from school. However, parents do not buy their children's game hobby, presumably because the price is expensive.

Playcast users will be able to play a variety of games, and finally select the favorite one?

We notice that users will find their favorite games and spend most of their time on the game.

How are the players in Singapore, Portugal and Korea different from the players in France in terms of their game habits?

In fact, we see that they have a lot in common-and of course they have different needs for local content. At the same time we found that French and Portuguese players prefer violent games to Korean players. In addition, Korean players are unfamiliar with the use of video games and game handles.

What is the business model of Playcast? Does the operator introduce the Playcast game as an additional service to the user? or an additional sales and feature service?

Playcast as a real competitive advantage for the company. 25% of the company's ads are related to Playcast. This side proves the speed and stability of the network. Playcast and Gaby share the game sales revenue proportionally.

What impact will the success of cloud games have on the development prospects of the game?

What we do is to release and show the game to the player in an unprecedented way. The film has also been "cloud" transmission, the game is the first time, and the latter average "fresh-keeping period" is only 3-5 weeks.

In addition, we will remove the obstacles to the broadcasting of video games, and video games have flourished. With the cloud game, a player team of 5 to 10 people can choose thousands of games.

It is reported that Playcast will land in the United States this year?

We do intend to launch Playcast in the United States and are discussing with several operators.

(Responsible editor: Schpeppen)