Like it or not, game streaming is the inevitable future...

Yes, streaming is the future and the future is a steaming pile of shit.

never ever

seething britbong who lost the revolution

Quality of service doesn't matter. The amount of upsides and control it gives to game publishers is too huge to not be the future.

>B-but MUH PC

Its literally every game companies wet dream rolled into one package, so of course it'll be the future.

>US
Not every country is a shithole when it comes to their internet.

Things like 5G and starlink are coming around. Soon no country will have bad internet.

>American with shitty internet

so AAAshit fucks off to become it's own thing and leaves non-streaming gaming for indies?

that would be nice

INDIES RISE UP

the sjw indies will move to streaming too

you'd be left with the autism indies(DF, caves of qud, factorio, terraria) so an improvement in quality

What are the SJW indies?

FNAF, depression quest, dream daddy r examples

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>Fnaf
>SJW
>Made by conservative christian Scott Cawthon
What?

I don't think so really. It will probably be a mainstream option eventually, but the speed of light means that it will never be as good as running it locally, and unless there's a server farm in every other city it'll only be acceptable for games where a bit of input delay doesn't matter much. Admittedly, that's almost all AAA games these days, but far from all games in general.
Stuff like connection consistency will improve over time as the infrastructure gets upgraded, maybe Elon's satellite network shit or whatever, they'll build more servers as demand increases and the price/performance for the hardware goes down, but at the same time the cost for individuals to own their own hardware will go down as well. It will never be cost effective for a company like Google to dedicate a significant amount more computing power to an individual subscriber than the cost of the subscription over time would buy.

Netflix took off even though there is no benefit to streaming video over local playback. Rendering on the cloud is much more attractive.

Starlink sounds one of those "too good to be true" projects, especially when there has been no real tests on it and ISPs will fight against it to secure their revenue.

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>No benefit
>Watch it from any device.
What?

It'll never work despite how greedy and jewish publishers are and how much they desperately trying to diminish the concept of ownership, PC gamer enthusiasts will never tolerate buying games, plus a pointless nickel and dime jewish subscription fee and casuals blame lag for everything as it is, introducing more latency means the halo cod babies won't buy it either
So who's the market for streaming, girls, your mother?

That's a niche amount of people. Most prefer convience

How is the extra steps of streaming more convenient for anyone?

Extra steps? You mean like the extra steps of buying a console or PC, setting it up and installing over just installing an app and playing?

Your average sports fan or COD fan doesn't care about inputlag, and these are usually the games that make the most money.

Like it or not, game streaming is the inevitable future. Pretty soon there will be no such thing as countries with bad internet thanks to things such as fiber. Everyone wants convience over performance.

You may not like it, but accept it.

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It'll never be adequate for any fast game, so it'll never take over completely. I can see it taking over for MMOs and maybe to render certain parts of other games (eg. rendering stuff a long way from the player) but that's about it. None of these 'every customer hates it but they'll buy it anyway because THE FUTURE' things ever gets off the ground.

COD fans definitely care about input lag, they just don't always know what it's called.

More steps than any console or PC
Also its serveral gigabytes, who's paying for the internet?
Oh I am so I get to pay for the internet bill inflated heavily due to streaming, the subscription service and for the game. When I could pay for just the game and it would be 100% a better experience
How convenient is streaming to warrant wasting 50GB's per hour?

>COD fan doesn't care about inputlag
Yes they do, they don't know it's called but they absolutely do

It is. Google probably fucked up their chance here, but we've got the technology to make it a comparable experience for much lower cost than a traditional console or PC.

It's just a matter of time.

Xbox's streaming service has been doing really well. Barely any input lag.

Any streaming service is going to have input lag. True gamers care about that and won't buy into it

I'll believe it when I see it. In my view though? It's going to take at least another technological breakthrough in internet speed before it can become a real thing. Even a little bit of input delay sucks for most games, the double input delay that streaming services would require would be even worse, to say nothing of the double-double input delay that would result in a peer-to-peer multiplayer game over a streaming service.

Software control will be easier
Network security will be easier
Demos can be a thing again.

Game streaming is the future.

It goes by degrees. The cost of the service being significantly lower gets their foot in the door. Poor parents go with a $10/mo streaming service on the Roku they already own or a $25 chromecast, over a $599 Xbox or PS5. Kids grow up playing games this way, it becomes all they ever know. Input lag gets reduced substantially with data centers in every major city, and plenty of medium ones.

It's not hard to see how this will play out.

>Software control will be easier
Say goodbye to mods and user-made content, retard.
>Network security will be easier
Good joke.
>Demos can be a thing again
Only if the game companies actually put them out. Spoiler alert: they won't. You'll find way more demos on Steam than you ever will on any streaming service that will ever exist.

Literally any streaming service will have input lag though. People have tested these streaming services on their city level internet and it simply isn't enough.

>starlink
Is only for rural areas, it can't handle large populations of bandwidth consumers. Countries are definitely out, more like counties.

If you think that companies aren't going to charge an insane amount of money for this and that you won't have to buy $60 games on the service, you're delusional.

Modding has been a dead scene for like 10 years.

Those kids will probably play on a friends console or PC occasionally, and they will notice that it's better. Streaming services should really focus on things regular gaming can't do well rather than just making a worse playstation then trying to force people to use it. Massively multiplayer is a really obvious example - all of the netcode headaches of running collision detection on a battlefield with 5000 actual players who all have different amounts of lag and packet loss disappear when they're all actually running on the same computer.

anything can be "dead" if you don't pay attention to it at all. You clearly don't know shit because there are plenty of games with shitloads of mods. People are STILL making new mods for classic games too.

What are they doing that's worse than playstation? Its literally an app that plays the same games at the same quality like Xcloud. There's no stopping this.

Input lag, have you even read any posts in the thread?

Hardware will continue getting cheaper and smaller. There is no reason to add the complexity of streaming.

Pretty soon no one will own anything anymore. Everything will be leased, rented, contracted, subscribed to or loaned. It's the future consumers have chosen and the ever conscious awareness of the climate crisis will make it the morally just thing to do in many's eyes

It's really creeped me out and I've been doing everything in my power to buy land, build my own home, own my own vehicle and keep physical backups of everything otherwise digital. Because in a few decades I'm not sure those will even be options (or at least not approachable options) for people anymore. Millennials and zoomers are already the generations that seemingly can't obtain or simply don't want to own their own estate. it's fucking weird

There are various ways they can overcome input lag in games developed for Stadia or even just mildly upgraded for it.
For instance one of the easiest is to expand the viewport of the video so that its projected onto a sphere, and then the player can look anywhere within the frame of the video with no lag because the projection is happening on their end.

It may see a return to more thoughtful turn based games which wouldn't be a bad thing.

By that point there will be riots and protests about it, and if that never happened, then I'll fuck off to France where they'll do just that or any other country who aren't jewish or corporate to the core

It'll be great for turn based games and MMOs, but that's only enough for it to become another competing platform. To replace PC and console it's going to have to do a lot more than that.

Stadia already proved that it's shit even with a good wired connection. What makes you think it'll ever be viable through a fucking satellite?

>By that point there will be riots and protests about it

???
Consumers have already shown several times they prefer to stream content. They've already shown they'd rather rent apartments. They've already shown they'd rather lease cars they otherwise couldn't afford

I don't know about other countries but this is the future America chose

>Consumers have already shown several times they prefer to stream content. They've already shown they'd rather rent apartments. They've already shown they'd rather lease cars they otherwise couldn't afford

>$15 for Netflix Vs $15 for a single bluray
>Consuemrs prefer streaming!
This post is horrifying because boomers actually think like this

Don't forget VR comrade.

VR headsets AND streaming

>VR
>Input lag from streaming.

Yeah that's not going to work lmfao

test

>Pretty soon there will be no such thing as countries with bad internet thanks to things such as starlink.
LOL, OP, surely you-
>Everyone wants convience over performance.

Oh yeah, school's out.

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