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Lanah Tyra's avatar

Interesting comparison and I agree on the accessibility of cloud gaming as entry for new gamers or a valid alternative for those who don't have the money to upgrade.

I'm mostly a PC gamer and use my PC for content creation as well, so the multiple use justifies the costs. Mind you I only upgrade when I find the current hardware being insufficient for my needs, and even then I don't necessarily buy the best, just something which will be enough for my needs for a good while. I do have a PS5 as well, but I'm not going to upgrade it to a PS5 Pro.

My issue with cloud gaming is the latency / connection issues. Compared to what I'm used to in quality of broadband from Hungary, the UK is far behind. Even with Virgin Media which is considered the best quality, as soon as you move away from your router the wifi is unreliable. Not to mention the very low upload speed most providers are giving you.

Due to my work I can try some streaming / remote connection options which are used in game development and even when I stream a game on my laptop from a PC right next to me which are on the same wired network I notice occasional issues with the connection. Even with a low latency software it's not the same as playing the games locally on my own device.

I think it's like foldable phones... a good idea, lot has improved recently, it's going in the good directions but it's not quite there yet in quality to my liking.

Haven't tried GeForce Now though so I can't say anything about that particular service.

Dave's avatar

Yeah it’s not quite ready today for mass adoption, give it a few more years & I think it will be though. With the increasing costs of hardware, as demonstrated by the ps5 pro debate & the rumoured costs of the 50x0 cards, I think it’s inevitable we move to the cloud compute rental model, just like most enterprise workloads have & it will become unusual to have powerful local hardware.

Even for video rendering etc, people could rent time on cloud gpus as they become ever more unaffordable.

Sturmer's avatar

For cozy gaming sure, but not for MMO / competitive games due to big ping and low FPS.

Dave's avatar

digital foundry showed that latency on GeForce now in Fortnite was practically the same as a ps5, sometimes lower.

At 60hz the ps5 gave 96.8ms, GeForce now has a latency of 78.3. At 120hz ps5 was 48ms and GeForce now 53ms. The differences are not perceptible & come down to your local networking quality (so wired to avoid issues).

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2023-cloud-gaming-can-work

the narrative around latency comes from a assumption that it will be worse without having tried it, or a households local networking not being setup with latency in mind (WiFi repeaters, mesh networks etc).

It used to be pretty bad across all cloud services, but the nvidia service has come a long way the last few years.

Makster's avatar

Local hardware has always been faster than cloud based IMO

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