@verge: Companies bet big that gamers would want to play games streamed from the cloud, but for many reasons, the technology hasn’t yet won out. How does cloud gaming work, and is there still a chance it could be the future? Presented by @Atlassian

building 7 :

i dont want to pay 100s a month to play a game

dt0 :

why is this ad paid by Atlassian I'm so confused they do nothing at all related to this domain

Chad :

Trying to get our RAM! Never!

derp :

alright. but what if we didn't do cloud gaming, and run everything locally on out machines.

NiC 🇧🇧 :

We don’t want it

HowlMovedCastles :

Never in a million years

Alex :

Flight simulator isn’t really a good example because it’s just terrain. That’s all the game really needs to provide. And yes, terrain data takes up a lot of space but it also isn’t reactive. Your computer is requesting data within a certain radius around the player and the server is sending it back. That’s it. Any other type of game includes interactive objects, enemies, dynamic systems, etc. that make latency a far greater issue. Flight simulator is basically just doing the same thing your gps app is.

_quence_ :

You will own nothing & be happy

leala :

I shouldn't need internet to play games

cherrypepsi2007 :

Xbox Game Pass Tiers (With Monthly Cloud Hours) Essential: $9.99 per month (includes 5 hours of cloud playtime per month) Premium: $14.99 per month (includes 10 hours of cloud playtime per month) Ultimate: $22.99 per month (includes 15 hours of cloud playtime per month

Steave :

You will own nothing and be happy

kiwiholden 🇦🇺🇳🇿 :

Yes we can do the second part but it will suck because of the first part. Downsides dwarf the upsides

Bort :

They’re already trying to pivot the overbuild of data centers, but GPU’s depreciate at both by value and by computational speed at an alarming rate.

ThatDesignFeel :

Heck no! If you fundamentally don't want to own your games at all, then go ahead; but the idea of a game that you physically need someone else's servers to play should be anathema to players

IAdeGuardia :

This has been promised even before AI 🤔

subatomicswagger :

cloud gaming doesnt work because most people only play one game a lot. It isnt like netflix where most people switch between shows

llunchtime :

I had Stadia and it worked for me

404error :

No. I will go back to play my N64 before I switch to "cloud gaming".

Psychono :

End to end latency is an industry standard term between any client- wtf.

Chui Moto :

Let's see how this goes....

_clemfandango_ :

Tucker :

I sure hope it’s not

massraptor :

tell me you don't game. without telling me you don't game

ColeHock :

michaelm_117 :

Except cloud gaming SUCKS and Google Stadia discovered this and quit while they were ahead.