By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Yes, when we reach the point when the internet connections are good enough for high-quality streams with no noticable jaggies, aliasing, artifacts, lag and stutters. Then it will be more efficient, convenient and probably cheaper to render the games in big data centers than on millions of separate small boxes.

But that will take at least one or two decades, since we need most of the traffic bandwith for downloading porn. ;)