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brookst 6 days ago

Couldn’t you apply that same thinking to all compute? Servers will always have more, timesharing means lower cost, people will probably only ever own dumb terminals?

aydyn 6 days ago | parent [-]

Latency. You cant play video games on the cloud. Google tried and failed.

wcarss 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

well, another way to recount it is that google tried and it worked okay but they decided it wasn't moving the needle, so they stopped trying.

liamwire 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huh? GeForce NOW is a resounding success by many metrics. Anecdotally, I use it weekly to play multiplayer games and it’s an excellent experience. Google giving up on Stadia as a product says almost nothing about cloud gaming’s viability.

Balinares 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you mean Stadia? Stadia worked great. The only perceptible latency I initially had ended up coming from my TV and was fixed by switching it to so-called "gaming mode".

Never could figure out what the heck the value proposition was supposed to be though. Pay full price for a game that you can't even pretend you own? I don't think so. And the game conservation implications were also dire, so I'm not sad it went away in the end.

But on technical merits? It worked great.

aydyn 5 days ago | parent [-]

No it did not.