I can’t imagine waiting in a queue to play a single player game.
Yeah that’s pretty wild. Guess these will be the hiccups before Cloud Gaming really becomes mainstream.
The input lag alone is a dealbreaker for me. After I bought my handheld I’ve stopped using it all together
Honestly I hope that game streaming doesn’t become mainstream ever, it could mean the end of traditional game ownership. And I think that input lag will always be a thing even with better network speed.
What handheld have you got?
Traditional game ownership already ended once after the popularization of digital downloads, but you’re right, it could end all over again in an even more dire way if cloud gaming gets popularized as well.
Logistically I’m really not sure how companies can promise a consistent experience with input lag considering you have to live close to data centers. Unless they’re gonna build them all around the country lol. Their tech for streaming I feel is very inferior from Nvidia and Even Stadia at the time.
I think for the next at least half decade, it’ll be a supplemental perk to GPU and nothing more. I don’t see it ending traditional game ownership just yet. Unfortunately the way digital purchase has been so widely adopted, we’re already halfway there. The used game market has slowly dwindled over the years.
I have the ROG Ally and I’m loving it. I’ve always been a console gamer and this finally converted me.
Having a queue to play a single player game is more and more common each year. Most recently with Diablo 4 DRM. 😪
As for Game Pass having a longer queue might be a good thing for the future of Game Pass in general. More people using the service. 🤔 maybe…
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Other situations:
- You’re on a mobile device, with a controller
- You’re on a Steam Deck and wanted to play a Game Pass game
- You heard of a cool game but you don’t want to download its 80 GB when you don’t know if you’ll like it
- You want to complete a game pass quest, which means playing a game for 30 minutes then uninstalling it
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I mean…yes. It is “not ideal”.
To many people, anything other than 240hz monitors running on an overclocked quad GTX 4080 is “not ideal”.
It’s an option for convenience in a world where many people have less than ideal circumstances, not a totalitarian push for cloud control. XCloud was only ever advertised as an extra feature, not some prime method of game delivery.
Being able to quickly try out a game before downloading the honking thing is gamer hell?
@Colorcodedresistor @Katana314 I agree with you. I tried streaming games using Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Network and it was all very laggy and sub par. If streaming games were the only way I could play games I would rather just go touch grass. I have and will most certainly build a PC just to play one game because I love video games and I will not settle for less.
