Comment by markgreene

2 days ago

cloud gaming has given me this same revelation. It's as portable as a Switch but the gaming experience isn't limited by the hardware in hand. Connectivity is important for the experience, though.

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brink  2 days ago

Streaming videos, leasing cars, cloud gaming, spotify, are all great until the distributor takes it away.

I prefer to own my things. The sense that something is mine increases the pleasure of using something for me.

It probably stems from my acquired lack of trust in people. The idea that there's a suit in a high-rise building that spends their days thinking about how to exploit my continued enjoyment of a title by raising the fee, or not addressing congestion hours, or retracting the title when the contract is up and renewing would cost too much, or putting a clause in the service agreement that strips me of my right to sue them if I lose an arm in their amusement park, simply by blurring the lines of ownership.. it bothers me.

machinekob  2 days ago

cloud gaming is good if you live close to the servers and don't care about graphics, but playing with +60-100ms for every action feels very bad. It almost feels like playing on 15-20 fps PC and quality of streaming video is always a problem compared to native quality maybe AV1 will fix it.

  • jeffhuys  2 days ago

    7ms latency, 4k120fps with geforce now. 10ms on wifi. I'm not kidding.

    It's ALMOST perfect. I play BF1 through it. Try it once (I believe they still have the "free for 1hr per session, infinite sessions"? That's what sold it to me).

    I can play very intensive games (graphically) on my macbook on the couch. It's amazing, and I couldn't believe the 10ms on wifi. It's mind-blowing.

    BUT I live near Amsterdam, where a server cluster is.

    Also, about the graphics: I'm borrowing a 4080 every time. Everything is on max. If you're in a very (very) hard scene for compression, then yeah, you'll see (very little) artifacts. But I run it on 75mbit, and that's a LOT.

  • koromak  2 days ago

    Yeah my experience has been thats its basically unplayable. I'm the kind of person who refunds when a game is <60fps though.

duxup  2 days ago

Yeah I gave GeForceNow a run and I really liked it. There are limits but I like just firing up a game regardless of platform.