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[Sintoid]

I have such a backlog I can play till I die

 

[Cakeboxer]

Nop, i'll rather use my 3TB Batocera machine then.

 

[Ziglax]

Hardware stagnation or decline might actually be what the gaming industry needs, especially on PC where consideration for optimization has been completely non existent for years on AAA games.

 

[Radical_3d]

I'm sick of subscriptions.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

No, I wouldn't even consider it. I've got a decent PC, PS5 Pro, a Switch 2 and a Steam Deck with hundreds of games between them all. If gaming hardware becomes even more expensive in the coming years then I'll continue to just play through my current games. In fact, they would be doing me a massive favour tbh.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Retro game prices will fucking boom if that ever becomes the case. We all ready seeing people pay silly money for 3DS systems.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Not at all. I'll stick with ps5 and switch 2 for twenty fucking years. Developers will just have to adapt to low specs again.

Hell, we'd probably get better games with a ten year spec pause because developers might actually have to learn a thing or two about game design and optimization.

 

[bbeach123]

You talk as if the subscription cost won't go up, and they won't limit your playtime.

 

[Sanepar]

You talk as if the subscription cost won't go up, and they won't limit your playtime.

They already limit your play time, at least geforce now. You pay a 5080 every 24 months for them. It is a stupid model.

 

[Karim]

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)

 

[pudel]

 

[Robb]

 

[Boss Mog]

I have a back log that can easily last me over a decade. I won't let somebody else dictate what and when and if I can play a game.

 

[Onironauta]

In this forum it's cool to shit on cloud gaming, but it's definitely better than running a game on a machine that doesn't match the hardware requirements.

So yes I'd use cloud gaming for some newer demanding games, plus my existing HW for older/lighter ones.

 

[lakitu1982]

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.

I'm no expert, i don't know what your issue is. It's great for me with no stutters and low input latency. Now if i try other streming services it's terrible!

 

[zaga]

No cloud for me. It will take me several decades to exhaust the previous gens and current gen

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Nah, I'll pass. I guess if you absolutely have nothing else, cloud gaming is better than nothing I suppose, but I rather pay for the hardware even if it's expensive or go retro over cloud gaming every time.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I'm no expert, i don't know what your issue is. It's great for me with no stutters and low input latency. Now if i try other streming services it's terrible!

I suspect there is probably some bullshit 5Ghz interference or something, but here's the deal - it shouldn't matter when I am getting the speeds I have, GFN required bandwidth is a fraction of that.
Another argument is this - instant resume. I game exclusively on the Steam Deck, and I'm back in the game in 2-3 seconds. It's a couple of minutes to start GFN app, select the game, get through the start menus. If you play just a few minutes at a time it adds up very quickly.

 

[kikonawa]

Never. The cloud wont stay at the same price either

 

[Braag]

Absofuckinglutely not. It's not for me.

 

[Draugoth]

I would move out of this hobby.

Cloud gaming means they can nuke a game overnight because it didn't meet their expectations.

 

[Sethbacca]

There are enough games currently in circulation to have a backlog big enough to never touch the cloud. I'm good.

 

[NeonDelta]

if it was the only choice then i probably would sub for the odd month here and there. but id rather pay £1000 for a PS6 if that was the cheapest way to locally play next gen games than pay £20 or more for cloud. even though i have gigabit speed internet.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

 

[Sethbacca]

I think they are more likely to just continue to sell the PS5 as is.

The problem is future games will need the PSSR and improved raytracing capabilities offered by RDNA4 or whatever. At some point they'll need to do a hard cutoff on PS5 since PS6 is going all in on ray tracing and pssr.

 

[Hector Hall]

Nope.

Besides, if they offer you the subscription and subsidize the remote hardware it's because they will make you pay more long term.

 

[DeepEnigma]

No poll.

How could you, OP!

 

[wipeout364]

It would have to be pretty extreme for me to give up dedicated hardware. I find cloud really sucks for anything other than turn based games such as RPG's.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Should have added a poll. Anyways, I will always prefer local play even if it becomes expensive in the future so the answer is no.

 

[Alpha Male]

 

[PlayStaytion]

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.

Everything change except the lazy devs.

 

[PlayStaytion]

No, on consoles, time equals money to me, consoles make more sense to me.

 

[Tg89]

No, my backlog will last me a lifetime if it gets that bad.

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

No, I have thousands of games released up to this point that I can keep playing in good quality, I don't need cloudslop with fake frames and delay.

 

[mckmas8808]

 

[The_Mike]

Ffs the memory news is a month old. Do we really need to plan 50 years ahead just in case?

To be fair, it's not long ago we had the same issue with GPUs. They are still over expensive.

I think RAM prices are there to stay as well.

It's a matter of time before the next hardware gets screwed over.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Played game pass via Xbox streaming via Samsung tv recently, it makes do, the problem was the clunky slow menus, gameplay wise, graphics these things played well.

 

[Spukc]

 

[chance74]

im doing it rn, my pc can't run most of the new games, so its cool to have the option to play them on cloud bc i dont have a big money bag on my table yet xd, but once i got the money i will upgrade my pc and then buy the new games that i like - just because, on the cloud, the games we play can easily vanish if not enough people play them, plus on geforce we have a limit on how much hours we can play - oh and not everygame is cloud playable thats the last problem

 

[Fess]

So you have done exactly what you just said you wouldn't do

No I didn't do it because hardware was too expensive.