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CuCabeludo said:
JRPGfan said:

The low end, the casuals....

People that want 4k and the sharpest image quality, and their games to look and play the best (input lag ect) will all still buy physical hardware.
Same with people that have data caps or not the fastest internet... or who live too far from a server farm, makeing the experiance not so great.

You talk as if 20 years from now internet speeds will be stuck at the same rates as today. In the next 10-20 years the leap in speeds will be huge, just like the leap we saw from 1998-2018 period. This is not something that will happen overnight, but it will certainly grow and solidify in the next 2 decades.

No because:

But input lag & ping isnt related to internet speeds (how fast you download or upload).

Its bound by laws of physics.... signals take take certain amount of time to travel x distance, and when its streamed and has to go both ways it just takes twice as long.
Which means the experiance is never as good as owning the physical hardware, and haveing it done locally.

Maybe the concept Microsoft has with the hardware doing half the work, is able to close that margin enough where it doesnt matter though.
That and haveing tons and tons of server farms everywhere, so no matter where in the world you are, your right next to one, you can log onto.

I can see it takeing off amoung casuals but it ll never be the best experiance (imo).
Then again, maybe that isnt needed, for it to be successfull.

 

this is what input lag looks like (the downside to streaming games):
(you press a button on your controller, and it takes sometime before anything happends on the screen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPG5PTT2ztw

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLev6j6M5us

"the latency is slightly noticeable, its not like your gonna smack your mouse and wait 3secounds before it responces, but its probably about half a secound at worst"

^ quote from video.

Also theres image quality loss, like watching a youtube video of a game, instead of actually haveing it on your tv.
Owning your own console that plays the game, is a vastly better experiance for games than streaming them.

Last edited by JRPGfan - on 08 October 2018