True, however it's not really going to enable an obvious jump from something like Mario World -> Mario 64 for example; and some would argue that losing control over the hardware and introducing a level of guaranteed input lag and compressed audio/video would be more of a tech downgrade compared to what they already have. I think cloud is great for productivity purposes but personally I doubt the tech will ever approach local quality.
Well said, and this is why I'm never going to be part of any cloud gaming future. It's horse shit designed to make CEOs richer and completely take ownership of games away from gamers. I'll never be a part of this crap. If consoles go the bye I'll just emulate everything on PC. I know the hardcore PC gaming community will never accept this shitty "future of gaming" through the cloud.
,eventually it may be the way but infrastructure would have to be there to support tens of millions at once. It's not there and not in 10 years.
Eh, that power doesn't come magically, if you want half decent cloud power nowadays you gotta pay expensive GeForce Now subscriptions or similar and Microsoft has admitted they will have to increase their subscription prices as they're currently unsustainable too, what company's suddenly gonna offer you so much better than home system power without charging out the wazoo for it and why? The only thing that could really work is some MMORPG that already has a subscription being completely cloud based to offer the same high quality experience to all and even that's not happened (some cloud games on 3DS and Switch the quality is barely better than the systems could handle natively and more like they couldn't bother making a real port so resorted to that and make you unable to play your purchased game as soon as they decide it costs more than it made).
Nintendo and Sony when hearing this:
Dude should learn how to make RPG elements relevant in a RPG before advising the console leaders on what to do. THAT’S what would make me happy.
I don't think so. Your character still responds to your inputs locale. The server just take its time to process the reactions to your characters actions.
. Cloud gaming is too unreliable and it's the next step at not owning shit for good.
Microsoft just likes to talk a lot. Stadia had way better streaming quality than XCloud. Sony is now ahead on streaming quality, number of titles on subscription and have a device dedicated for streaming (PS Portal). What’s Microsoft’s advantage?
Again, infrastructure. Also Microsoft can reach a lot more devices than PlayStation can at this time.
I don’t see MS doing any better. And their streaming strategy is odd. Like I don’t understand why they stream Xbox versions when they have PC versions day 1 and full controller support. Isn’t Starfield on XCloud using the Series X version. Why? Could have Ultra visuals and 60fps on console through the cloud. What am I missing?
did you know that videogames are made using a PC with Windows OS?
You do know Sony uses Microsoft's Azure servers don't you?
As far as I know they use AWS and not Azure. The fact they have to use someone else’s infrastructure isn’t irrelevant when the cloud providers are also their competitors.
And MS use parts in their hardware that come from Sony, people have TV's that have parts from Sony. Who they use is irrelevant so long as they provide the infrastructure they need. Or are you saying that Microsoft would not provide the service that Sony requires? Because that is rather silly. That's like saying no PlayStation studio is allowed to use Microsoft Windows PC's.
Because renting the infrastructure represents an extra cost that needs to be offset. Either with smaller profit or with a higher price tag on the service that makes it less competitive.
Like the USA? Because in my third world country I have 700 Mbps fiber with 20~30ms of lag with Geforce Now.
Yeah exactly and it is what most of those exec don't get. And this is why Xbox is doing quite well recently, balancing things quite well. They tried to brute force that shit on the One and they saw it won't work, people are not that dumb, so now they're into the "let different choices" to people, and it might work. You want to play in the cloud ? OK they have xCloud you can use it through a browser, a phone, a TV, whatever, it works well depending on your connexion. You wanna buy the game with a box ? OK do that. You wanna buy it but digitally ? OK you can do this too. You don't wanna pay games 1 by 1 but would rather pay a sub service like Netflix ? This is also possible.
And that's why there are various tiers for playstation plus, premium etc. it's paid for by the people using it. Could XBox provide it cheaper? Maybe, but it's only in this theoretical world where hardware and software can provide mega low latency cloud gaming and provide it to 100's of millions of people at the same time, globally, no matter the service provider. That's a heck of a lot longer than 10 years away (if possible at all like I said) in my opinion.
Mostly content availability and quality when kinda available.
