Are you willing to get your next-gen gaming fix via "The Cloud" if local hardware becomes too expensive?

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onQ123

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Like if you could buy PS6 / Xbox Next games and play them on older devices as longs as you have a premium subscription. (you will also have a license for the last generation to play locally)
 
Still far from really great cloud gaming. Maybe next decade

I hope local hardware doesn't turn to be too expensive to be considered prohibited from buying in this future
 
No. Rampocalypse will force devs to target 8GB video cards and last gen consoles until the world heals. I honestly don't care if graphics stagnate exactly as they exist right now. I'm cool with a 4090 until 2030ish if that's what it takes.
 
Absolutely not. Cloud gaming sucks, and I spent years working in the space so I should know.

I'd rather just play older games or, if I'm really desperate, shell out for actual hardware even if it's expensive.
 
No. I'll just lower the settings. Cloud gaming isn't anywhere near good enough with the current internet speeds and stability in my region.
 
I really enjoy my geforce now gaming, it works really well. Wish it had every Steam game though. I like that I'm not bothered about PC prices and can buy my games cheap compared to consoles.
 
Absolutely not, hate cloud gaming and lag/pixelated screen it intoduces, its only semi ok for super casual gamers who live in big cities with crazy fast and even more important- extremly reliable internet.
 
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Already using geforce now ultimate with my ROG Ally, just got it a couple of weeks ago with BF discount. Been phenomenal so far. I get 8ms to their servers so feels just like local. 1080p 120fps with an RTX 5080.
 
onQ123 said:
Like if you could buy PS6 / Xbox Next games and play them on older devices as longs as you have a premium subscription. (you will also have a license for the last generation to play locally)
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I saw it many times but still it baffles me a lot
From fucking where did this "cloud will save us from expensive ram" comes? Cloud ~too~ need memory and it'll be just as expensive for them. With added costs it means that cloud gaming will be prohibitive expensive - I don't think many will pay 50$/month to play games with latency, queues and ping stability issues.

BennyBlanco said:
No. Rampocalypse will force devs to target 8GB video cards and last gen consoles until the world heals. I honestly don't care if graphics stagnate exactly as they exist right now. I'm cool with a 4090 until 2030ish if that's what it takes.
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Devs will target whatever main target hardware will be. And it'll probably be PS5 for next several years. 8Gb peasant are non-issue now and will be non-issue tomorrow.
 
Given "The Cloud" doesn't work 95% of the time in Australia, the answer cannot be anything other than "no".

Instead, I'll just continue to use my current gen gaming PC.
 
Felessan said:
I saw it many times but still it baffles me a lot
From fucking where did this "cloud will save us from expensive ram" comes? Cloud ~too~ need memory and it'll be just as expensive for them. With added costs it means that cloud gaming will be prohibitive expensive - I don't think many will pay 50$/month to play games with latency, queues and ping stability issues.


Devs will target whatever main target hardware will be. And it'll probably be PS5 for next several years. 8Gb peasant are non-issue now and will be non-issue tomorrow.
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Huge games like BF6, elden ring, Wukong, Monster Hunter Wilds are selling more on PC than ps5. Big games that sell best on consoles like CoD, Fifa, NBA2k, Madden all still release on ps4.

Devs are just gonna chase money as they should and optimize for the biggest user bases as they should.
 
I game on the Switch in handheld mode, nowhere near WiFi, at least 40% of my gaming time. So, no.

Also, hell no.
 
BennyBlanco said:
No. Rampocalypse will force devs to target 8GB video cards and last gen consoles until the world heals. I honestly don't care if graphics stagnate exactly as they exist right now. I'm cool with a 4090 until 2030ish if that's what it takes.
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rampocalypse is such an awesome word. Ram-bo apocalypse.

IT: I have a pc gaming. It will outlast time.
 
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I have close to 1Gbps optic fibre, I'm pulling close to 700-800Mbps downloads over WiFi.
Sitting 3 meters from the router I have terrible stutters in GFN after 5 minutes.

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Option A: modern slop streamed at 1080p tops with compression + DLSS + framegen
Option B: classic kino at native resolution


I take B.
 
Ofcourse Yes.

If they work and are the cheaper alternative, why wouldn't I? Huge assumption that cloud gaming actually works which it doesn't and won't for next 10 years.
 
The game Pass effect; Access the games you wanna play once in a while. Local hardware will be enough for what, 90% of the games?

Things like Star citizen, GTAs or Crysis are the outliers
 
Ive used GFN quite a bit in the past, great supplementary way to play, but cloud gaming as a main method? Hell no.

Always cheaper to outright buy local hw than rent and be left with nothing tangible in the long run.
 
I'd rather play old gen and retro titles natively than invest in streaming. Honestly, I'd even rather play phone games.

Maybe it will change someday, but for now I'm not a fan of cloud gaming at all. It's not even the lag or visual compression. I just don't like the idea of not being able to at least download something and run it locally.
 
onQ123 said:
Like if you could buy PS6 / Xbox Next games and play them on older devices as longs as you have a premium subscription. (you will also have a license for the last generation to play locally)
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Not that long ago, if you had asked the same question about movies, people would have said that they would NEVER stream movies and they would always buy them on DVD/BluRay, and now most of those people don't even own a machine that can play those discs.

Gaming is going to head in the same direction. You can already stream Gamepass games - it works fine and will only get better with time, but that's a subscription service.

Sony seems to be headed in the right direction.

I'm seriously impressed by the PS Portal, and I'd like to see Valve do something similar with the SteamBox and SteamDeck - the ability to stream every game in your library directly from the cloud would be a game-changer and instantly solve the problem of the Steam hardware eventually being underpowered. Granted, you can stream from your own PC to the SteamDeck now but that's not the same as being able to stream from the cloud.
 
no... and with stagnating game graphics that probably won't even be an issue.

fuck, Valve is about to launch a PC/Console thingy with in parts lower specs than the PS5 from 2020.
and that will basically be the minimum target for lots of PC games, inclusive seemingly Half Life 3 lol

Sony is gonna launche a handheld with specs lower than PS5 in about 1½ years as well, again, lowering the target spec for even their games.
 
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