Why does every game streaming thread on era read like astroturfing? I mean the pro streaming posters read like they are just trying to work through the 5 stages of grief at best or on googles payroll at worst. Having tried Gakai 10 years ago I checked out the new options since to see if it was any better than that piece of shit was.
I have a PlayStation Now trial and the input latency is bad enough you can’t play Pac-Man DX properly past the beginning, and the IQ looks like ass, even with my 100 Mbps, I’m also in the GeForce Now beta and have 23 ms ping to their closest server (same ping as google had at E3), and I still felt latency aiming and moving playing Black Ops 4, and on the mouse cursor on something simple like Rimworld.
I mean it may be the future someday, but so is climate change and death, just sayin.
I think it has potential, especially because the usage case that consoles used to offer - you plug it in your TV and it just works - has been abandoned by Sony and MS with their "its just a PC breh, but we're not going to tell you the administrator password, you're only allowed to install what we whitelisted" approach.
I have a large digital media library including games, and I don't kid myself that I actually own shit, so that side of things isn't a chicken little scenario
Oh I don’t really get ruffled over digital license ownership, yeah it sucks for consumer rights but I’ve gotten to play so much cool shit via digital stores that their “rules” are a theoretical annoyance to me now if I think on it. I mean if Valve ever goes under then it’ll suck for sure, but hopefully I will have succumbed to the mad max climate apocalypse long before that happens lol.
To be honest in my case I own a switch and ps4 but would classify myself as a hardcore pc gamer, I have a large steam game count, and a large backlog I’m not proud of. But I would be lying in my case if I said I got my money’s worth out of the ps4 console or the switch. Basically owned a ps4 from launch and only really played through Red Dead 2 on it, which I’m glad I did but other than that it’s been a background noise blu Ray player most of its life. I just don’t care about god of war, last of us, uncharted, etc. same for switch I played through Mario odyssey and tried BoTW but didn’t stick to it.
So in my case just streaming Mario and red dead 2 probably would have been more economical. And in those (console) games case you can’t tweak them or mod them anyways. So no value is lost there, for me. But as a PC gamer modding is too cool to give up, it actually makes Bethesda games have longevity, and you wouldn’t have Minecraft without indie dev hardware, or Fortnite (BR as a game genre was created as a mod), Moba games, etc. my apprehension comes from the big publishers pushing this to be the ONLY way to consume games in the future at all, going as far as driving local pc hardware ownership out of business so to speak.
I just don’t trust these companies involved and we all made jokes about horse armor 13 years ago and look at the monetized hellscape most “triple a” games have become now, it makes horse armor almost cute by comparison. But yeah I would utilize streaming if it meant I could pay 60 to stream a Sony/Nintendo exclusive instead of dropping $400 on a box just to play 1 or 2 games I was interested in over its lifespan.
