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HoangNhatAnh said:

fatslob-:O said:

Verizon's "above unlimited" monthly plan pretty much offers an unthrottled 75GB of data at 4G LTE speeds. Sprint's "unlimited premium" offers 100GB of unthrottled data per month ... 

Considering how the Switch lasts about 2 and a half hours on a full charge while getting a comparable experience without Wi-Fi will need just under 5GB of data, the case with game streaming isn't all too bad but it'll only get better once 5G hotspots are commonplace which will dramatically increase the network capacity by lowering data congestion in the already limited ranges of radio wave frequencies of exisiting 4G LTE networks ... 

We use the 'cloud' for many things such as video streaming, data storage or for many other remote communication systems out there like the internet ...  

We already stream videos so extending the idea to streaming games from your personal system to your smartphone over the internet is a reality and we won't have to deal with dedicated gaming portable devices like the Switch ever again ...  

How many countries have strong wifi like that? In that case, stream rules all. The dedicate gaming systems (both home & portable) will be gone forever because you can stream any time and anywhere. Stream to phones if you want portable, stream to big screen like TV if you want home console experience. Both home console and portable will disappear forever ever :)))

regardless of countries getting that sort of internet access, one awesome thing with the Switch is being able to play it places without any internet connection, I can't really imagine my train and plane journeys having a level of broadband speed capable of delivering more than a podcast right now, streaming HD gaming to those area's is just out of the question right now or anytime near right now.

Devices capable of running games natively aren't going anywhere, from a latency point of view, nothing will beat having the cpu/gpu right there next to your screen.