Immediate_Dust_1303 t1_iu2b62w wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:55 AM

Reply to comment by GhostalMedia in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

Demand for console hardware is higher than its ever been. They couldnt make enough hardware for almost 2 years

Streaming is simply not needed. If console sales were diving it might make sense

GhostalMedia t1_iu2crwp wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:07 AM

Of course people are going to buy dedicated hardware when the alternative is totally unreliable for half of the people that try it.

At some point broadband infrastructure will be beefy enough to reliably stream high res video in near real time. When that happens streaming gaming will totally take off. This is inevitable.

Rockstaru t1_iu43xcg wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:29 PM

The main complaint voiced on this thread isn’t related to resolution or quality, it’s latency, and there’s only so much you can do to reduce latency that isn’t “move closer to whatever data center is running your game.”

Immediate_Dust_1303 t1_iu3t3hn wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:37 AM

Not it won't because streaming games is always going to have latency due to the laws of physics.

Google Stadia tech was already great, and it failed.

Hardware will only improve and make streaming even more irrelevant than ever

Formal-Appearance210 t1_iu30k97 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:23 AM

After 2 years of entering lotteries, I finally got a PS5 a couple weeks ago. There was a nondescript sign at the back of a big-box store here in Japan telling people to inquire about stock. It always used to have a little sign that just said, "Sold out."

I had to pass a bunch of checks to qualify, but I walked out of there $600 lighter and one PS5 heavier.

I wanted the digital edition because I never buy discs, but I took what I could get.