The death of Console and PC gaming?

[NJ5]

Khuutra said:

Deneidez said:

NJ5 said:

You're looking at the wrong numbers. The problem is not connection speed, since current connections are more than enough to transfer the stream.

The real problems are latency (aka ping time, aka lag) and jitter (i.e. non-constant latency), and that's not about to improve dramatically (in large part due to the laws of physics I mentioned).

Local servers and light fiber for every user. Problem solved! Next problem profitability.

Isn't this like solving the traffic problem by giving everyone... I dunno, personal beanie helicopters?

I am not much for analogies apparently, I mean that it doesn't seem feasible.

The local servers part is possible, assuming a large enough market exists for this at some point. Content distribution networks like Akamai already have local servers in many ISPs, but that's for a different problem (web content and video streaming which they sell to big companies with popular websites, to lighten the load on their servers).

As for the light fiber part I don't know much about it, I know they're deploying fiber in some big and dense cities but that's about it (I'm not even sure of what's the installation cost).