Hot take. Personal Gaming PC and consoles will become a thing of the past

[TechnoBoss]

Just the way how companies owning data centers to host their stuff became a thing of the past when AWS came out. I think personal gaming PCs and consoles will become a thing of the past aswell. It is happening right before our eyes. Console prices going up, GPU going up, SSD going up. Evrything is unaffordable rn. and at the same time so many data centers are being built, evrything is turning into a subscription.


And this trend has 0 signs of slowing down and at some point the price of the hardware will just become too much and then these companies will be like You know what you can just stream the games from our data centers instead of fighting us for hardware everytime, for $10 dollars a month now I know some niggas will surely talk about muh latency. Get with the times bro. This isn't 2019-20. Google stadia days. Cloud gaming has gotten very very good because of the advancements in networking. Wi-Fi 6E and 7 with multi link ops, modern AV1 codecs for efficiency. And modern networking standards and routers have made latency less and less of an issue. Now I'm sure rich niggas and eSports niggas will still buy PCs but the average gamer will probably have a 15-20$ subscription a few years down the line. But maybe I'm wrong. Im just a casual gamer and mostly a tech enthusiast and software dev so maybe I don't understand the sentiments of gamers but the writing is on the wall imo

Honestly I could totally see cloud gaming really taking off. You have some crazy expensive data center with a billion of the best GPUs and charge like $9 a month. It’s enough to where people would even forget they’re subscribed.

 

[unknownincel]

butt if i keep my PS5 forever then what

 

[Aox Ofwar]

Just the way how companies owning data centers to host their stuff became a thing of the past when AWS came out. I think personal gaming PCs and consoles will become a thing of the past aswell. It is happening right before our eyes. Console prices going up, GPU going up, SSD going up. Evrything is unaffordable rn. and at the same time so many data centers are being built, evrything is turning into a subscription.


And this trend has 0 signs of slowing down and at some point the price of the hardware will just become too much and then these companies will be like You know what you can just stream the games from our data centers instead of fighting us for hardware everytime, for $10 dollars a month now I know some niggas will surely talk about muh latency. Get with the times bro. This isn't 2019-20. Google stadia days. Cloud gaming has gotten very very good because of the advancements in networking. Wi-Fi 6E and 7 with multi link ops, modern AV1 codecs for efficiency. And modern networking standards and routers have made latency less and less of an issue. Now I'm sure rich niggas and eSports niggas will still buy PCs but the average gamer will probably have a 15-20$ subscription a few years down the line. But maybe I'm wrong. Im just a casual gamer and mostly a tech enthusiast and software dev so maybe I don't understand the sentiments of gamers but the writing is on the wall imo

Tried cloud gaming one time for fun and it’s not good for multiplayer only maybe single player games

How does that work? You just need any sort of shitty pc and you pay to connect to the company's hardware and you virtually play on their high end PCs?

 

[Aox Ofwar]

butt if i keep my PS5 forever then what

It will combust into flames once the warranty expires

 

[ihatereddit]

China will save PC gay men with competitive GPU and CPU prices in the 2030s