| KBG29 said:
I find it very interesting that so many are willing to use those kind of services, but see something like this as a threat or not adequate for their gaming experience. Perhapps, people on these forums are not users of these streaming services? I think I will make a thread and poll about this in around 6 months depending on how PS Now performs in that time. |
It's because TV shows and Movies aren't latency sensitive. For example, Netflix will often stream video siganls a full minute in advance or more. This buffer means you almost always get smooth video playback, even with rocky internet connections.
Streaming games is a completely differnt story. Not only must you cut down your buffer to a small fraction of a second, but your server also needs to take time to respond to your controller inputs (by comparison, Netflix is only streaming data 1 way. Game streaming requires 2-way data flow.)
And even if you could get your buffer down to a respectable 100ms, and have a perfectly stable connection, and ignore the worsened image quality, that 100ms delay is still very significant and will make many games unplayable.
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