GeForce Now performs well but it’s already seeing further limits put in place. Gamepass already saw price hikes. Amazon Luna has a terribly small library. Smaller players have to buy GPUs, memory, and processor’s too and contend with AI data center induced rising power costs. Plus data center location matters a huge amount and that’s still a work in progress for game streaming services and a lot of the world
Plus my Internet throttles after like 1.5TB a month. Fine for ~15mbps Netflix. Not so good for ~100mbps game streaming. Others have data caps or overage fees. There certainly are those with uncapped/unthrottled internet. I wish my neighborhood had that
Game streaming is going mainstream going to get worse short term too. Mostly pricing and worse usage limits
A midrange phone these days are power competitive with a PS4. Makes more sense for Steam’s future support android APKs because of the Steam Frame to make way for Steam to be an Android game store and devs target Switch-PS4 hardware on the low end and PS5 mid/high end. Don’t even entertain the idea of a PS6 level min requirements game for a game releasing this decade. Probably not even for the first half of the 2030s
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They’re certainly welcome to attempt selling that to me.
They won’t like the outcome, but that’s more of a them problem.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 days ago
We’ll see. I hope you’re right. Similar tactics in the housing market have created situations in which rent is cheaper than mortgage payments, which is a bad portent.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.
They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
what? no they haven’t. Rent is usually more expensive than mortgage payments we just set up the finanical system to disallow most renters from taking out a mortgage because its more profitable to trap people in an endless cycle of payment.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Doesn’t that rely on everyone having a fast internet connection with a high data cap? That’s not the case for a lot of people
msage@programming.dev 4 days ago
Do you play Call of Duty every release?
No? Because millions of people do.
Do you think your actions are offsetting that?
Because they are not. Nobody is going to sell hardware to a couple thousand folk who won’t get in with the times.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Based on your tone, you come from the Randy Pitchford school of public relations.
If you’re uncertain about what I’m getting at, my recent spending on Borderlands, and Borderlands related goods, averages out to zero dollars and zero cents.
msage@programming.dev 4 days ago
I’m telling you that we are in a minority.
And that unless we can convince at least 50% of gamers to not buy into that, we lost.
EA should have been bankrupt twenty times over, but people keep buying their games.
Same as with everything.
I keep fighting, but this fight has been lost since the start.