Lantz: Top esports titles will not stay dominant for 20 to 30 years
Frank Lantz · Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator · Dec 20, 2018 · at 53:11
Frank Lantz, director of the NYU Game Center, discusses whether current esports titles have long-term staying power comparable to legacy sports.
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“Like, it's not, I don't think we're looking at, like, whatever, you know, League of Legends, and Counter-Strike, and Hearthstone, and Overwatch, maybe Starcraft, I don't know. Like, I don't think those, I don't think we're gonna be stuck with those for the next 20 or 30 years but it's not clear what the next ones are gonna be.”
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