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I think it's interesting that we have three options now for sidestepping this by streaming games and yet none of them have made much of a dent. Microsoft seems
by sylens 5y ago
I think it's interesting that we have three options now for sidestepping this by streaming games and yet none of them have made much of a dent.
Microsoft seems to have the best business model but you're stuck streaming the games on Game Pass, and their latency seems to be the worst in my experience.
Stadia seems to have the best tech in terms of latency, but the weird "it'll only work on these certain Chromecasts" launch situation put me off it for a bit, and then there's the business model - trusting Google to honor purchases on this service in perpetuity.
Luna is the one I haven't tried but seems to be going for an approach where they partner with publishers to sell catalog packs, even if they're not quite there yet.
- automatic6131 5y agoThe availability of the high bandwidth, low latency FTTP internet is lagging severly enough for these to have no impact. The use cases where I, a high end gaming PC owner, would use streaming services are: travelling. Except unless you visit a city center, you aren't getting 5G, and you aren't getting WiFi 6 speeds. I'm in the UK, and here my parents live, where I live and where my friends live, none have the speeds capable for it. I imagine things are even worse in 95% of the US too. Game streaming won't happen in a country unless most of the country has 100MBit down
- lotsofpulp 5y ago> Game streaming won't happen in a country unless most of the country has 100MBit down Not just down, but up too with low latency and jitter.