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Dulfite on 06 October 2021
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mZuzek said:
Dulfite said:

You'd prefer it over that, even if the cloud version had no lag due to amazing internet? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy playing Switch games on the go too (especially in my house), but for AAA higher quality games (like Botw or the upcoming Metroid Prime 4), I absolutely want to sit on the couch, turn down the lights, and immerse myself. And that immersion, if I understand correctly, would be improved by playing a cloud version if the internet is great.

Yeah, I would. No amazing internet is completely flawless, you can't ensure it'll never disconnect or have an error or whatever. And no amazing internet is going to have less frames of input delay as a game being played locally, quite the opposite.

Then there's the server issue. If I'm playing a game on cloud, that game's running on a server somewhere. A lot is said about digital games not being "forever", that you might lose access to them, and while that's not true of all digital games, it's absolutely true for cloud games. That server won't be running the game forever. That's just how it is. It's a service being sold as a product. No thanks.

I tried Control earlier (like 10 hours ago or something) on Switch. There was absolutely no detectable input lag on my end. Granted, the demo ended after only a few minutes, but still, I was left impressed.

Regarding owning the game, seeing as how I don't go back to games I've already beaten or put down (except Paper Mario), that wouldn't be a problem to a gamer like me. That's why I love Gamepass so much. I'm 30, have a wife, a child, and another one on the way. I have a career I like, and would like to spend a lot of my other creative juices writing books and doing wood-working projects when I'm not actively doing stuff with my family. The amount of time I have to play video games these days is considerably more limited than it was when I was single, without kids, or in college. I don't want to spend that time on games I've already experienced, so not owning a game matters very little to me. I'm fully aware I'm on anecdote in a world of billions of people and that I may be an outlier, yet I'm sure I represent at least a decent chunk of the gaming population and that matters.

And now one of the three Paper Mario games I replay will be available, more than likely going forward on future systems, for the, I'm assuming, cost of three trips to a coffee shop a year. I suspect TTYD and SPM will be available down the road on NSO (whether with Switch 1 or Switch 2) when GameCube and Wii games are added one day. The more Gamepass and NSO grows, the less need and desire I have to buy games.

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