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You are missing the point. Cloud gaming is not a thing. Almost no one plays it. The experience is terrible. MS only has that position because it is thrown in
by pwthornton 3y ago
You are missing the point. Cloud gaming is not a thing. Almost no one plays it.
The experience is terrible.
MS only has that position because it is thrown in as part of Xbox Game Pass. No one is buying it on their own.
I have it as part of Game Pass. It's terrible. I never use it, outside of once or twice a year to verify it still sucks.
I am not convinced that cloud gaming is anywhere near being a thing. We could be talking several decades away before they figure out a way to get lag under control.
- sangnoir 3y ago> The experience is terrible. That is an implementation issue. I was on Stadia (r.i.p.) and the experience was superior to consoles: pure plug and play with no slow software updates getting in the way of gaming.
- georgemcbay 3y agoI'd say its more of an infrastructure issue than an implementation issue, at least in the US where consistent uninterrupted broadband access is still kind of a giant clusterfuck in many places due to de facto regional monopolies and ISPs not feeling much pressure due to real competition. No amount of delivery tech is going to make up for the infrastructure being unfit for purpose in so many areas.
- pwthornton 3y agoI am symmetrical gigabit fiber internet with an Eero 6 Pro in the U.S., and the lag is quite robust. I don't see a way of solving that. And, as you say, a lot of people don't have access to high-quality internet, and there is no reason to believe they will any time soon.
- selectodude 3y agoWireless internet will always make lag unbearable for that kind of stuff.
- pwthornton 3y agoBut surely the main use case for cloud gaming that can be played anywhere is over a wireless connection?
- pwthornton 3y agoHow was your experience with lag and what kinds of games were you playing the most?
- sangnoir 3y agoThe twitchy multiplayer game I played the most was Destiny 2, and I didn't observe any worse lagging than on Steam with the same internet connection. I can't remember if Destiny on Stadia was cross-platform - it very well could be that all my opponents were also on Stadia too, and were therefore equally hampered.
- dkersten 3y agoI didnt try stadia, but I did try a PlayStation Now trial some time ago. I only played single player games, but some were first person shooters where you’d expect lag to matter. My experience was also very good and I didn’t have any issues with lag. I kept forgetting that I was streaming. But I have gigabit internet (and before I got that, had 300 Mb/s) and played with a wired connection, so that’s likely a contributor to my positive experience.