Opinion: The Future Will Not About Hardware Platform (PC/COnsole/handled/Mobile ) but Ecosystem (service/software)

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konnichiwa said:

JRPGfan said:

So far game streaming isnt doing anything better than just haveing hardware in hand.

"you can stream it to mobile"

No you cant! stop this bullsh*t, data caps on mobile phones are tiny.
Useing 7-8 GB in 1hour to game, on a mobile phone isnt viable.

Most people buy small data plans for phones, where they have like 40gb-100gb.
If that means your entire months data usage, can be gone in 5hours (game streaming), its not viable for phones (unless companys magically start giveing us like x1000 data caps, out of the goodness of their own hearts, for the same prices).

*** This is why people buy expensive phones, to game on. Its also why the Nintendo Switch is still viable. Game Streaming just doesnt work atm, with data caps.

I am sorry but their are already a bunch of countries with unlimited data caps for mobile in fact 29 countries of the 41 OECD countries have unlimited data.  

At a price! If you're willing to pay ~50€ a month just to be able to stream games on top of what the games cost - and you still end up with a worse experience, just look at Stadia and how that went down.

Also, unlimited data doesn't mean unlimited bandwidth. For a 1080p like experience, you should already have something like 10Mbit/s, for 4k, 50Mbit/s. Most antennas would be overwhelmed if there's more than a couple users who game like that (just measure your internet speed in Metro Manila for instance, you'd be happy if you reach double digits on LTE - and they only play LoL and the like).