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SvennoJ on 11 October 2021
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Dulfite said:
twintail said:

If you can stream without issue and don't care about ownership, I'm not sure what the reservation is then?
I haven't tried game streaming myself, but I'd do it if it worked.

I've only tried it on a demo. I made the thread to hear from people that have played many hours on cloud games that have fiber. I don't want to buy games before knowing how they feel after many hours of playing. So far, the demo I tried was great, but that was for minutes before it told me the demo had expired (Control).

My biggest goal in the short term is figuring out if KH 1-3 Cloud Version will look and play just as well on Switch with excellent internet as it will on PC or if PC, regardless of Fiber, will look and play better. I want to play whichever is a better version, but if they are tied (hypothetically) then I'd prefer the Switch as it is portable and connect to my TV.

So far, it seems like I'm getting some responses from technical perspectives (which I appreciate), but other responses from people that clearly don't have fiber based on their responses (and they, therefore, aren't useful).

It depends on the PC of course, but also on what times you regularly like to play.

My internet is best early morning and during the day, then degrades in the evening when people start streaming content. Weekends it depends on the weather, the worse the weather, the more people stay in and the worse the internet gets.

Maybe you live in a less congested neighborhood. I was updating a bunch of games on ps4 pro on Saturday. It was going well until about 7pm when speeds dropped dramatically. I was watching tv and at the start of one show it said 41 minutes left, then 40 minutes later it said 49 minutes left... The download was still moving, yet crawling now.

Some ISPs also throttle certain content. To cite FS2020 again, some people have to use VPNs to 'fool' their ISP to get full bandwidth, otherwise they get throttled and are left with a bombed out landscape, not streaming in faster than 10 mbps. I assume fibre doesn't do that at least.

So really the only thing you can do is try it out over a long period of time, on your internet, at your play times, in your neighborhood. One person can have a great experience, the next nothing but frequent stutters, high latency and low image quality.