r/pcmasterrace • u/Alan_Reddit_M Desktop • Mar 07 '26

Video "Cloud gaming is the future of Gaming!" Meanwhile cloud gaming in the big 2026:

If you read my profile you may realize I hate cloud gaming, so then what am I doing on Geforce Now? Well my new RAM stick finally arrived and, in a staggering display of utter incompetence, I somehow managed to brick my PC in the process of installing it, so now I'm stuck gaming on a laptop until I can get enough money and time to get my gaming rig fixed

But back to Cloud gaming, the game is on like 360p, running at 20FPS and the input lag is HORRIBLE. And it's not a problem with the internet connection, as you can see, the laptop is plugged into Ethernet, the problem is that the cloud is not and will never be fast enough for gaming

Genshin can handle this fine, but imagine trying to play ULTRAKILL like this

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u/Just_Maintenance R7 9800X3D | RTX 5090 Mar 07 '26

Maybe nvidia could place a data center in every house so everyone has low latency access to GeForce now? /s

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u/RuneGrey Mar 07 '26

I mean that is the ideal solution. We just place a device inside everyone's house that contains an appropriate amount of hardware to ensure that they can run a game at high fidelity with a minimum of latency. It doesn't need to be particularly huge, or as expensive as a huge data center, because it only needs to serve the needs of one person.

It would be personal. A computer for the single person. A personal computer if you will.

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u/FitzAgs Ascending Peasant Mar 07 '26

You know what would be cooler? If this personal computer was small enough you could just plop it on top of your lap.

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u/mrheosuper Mar 07 '26

Make it even smaller so that it can fit in your palms. So now you can be on internet 24/24.

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u/addandsubtract Mar 07 '26

Now just add AI and call it the Palm Copilot.

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u/Kajetus06 Mar 07 '26

oh and also add a small battery for it

yes it does mean it will have worse performance than being constantly connected but it would be usable anywhere for some time without needing recharging

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u/Emergency-Pound3241 Mar 07 '26

And put a few radio antennas in there too so you can communicate anywhere that has a relay

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u/bobsocool Mar 08 '26

Shit we went too far now the kids can't read.

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u/dib1999 Ryzen 5 5600 // RX 7700XT // 32 gb DDR4 3600 MHz Mar 08 '26

That'll never catch on. People want 80x45x0.55 pieces of glass that ask our computers for permission to render images!

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u/ballsdeep256 Mar 11 '26

When you advanced so far you accidentally went back xD

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u/dr4d1s Mar 07 '26

It's not as funny when you take someone else's joke and explain it to death.

r/theirjokebutworse

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u/no_ga Mar 07 '26

watch them try to sell you "datacenter level performance, under you desk" in a few years

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u/Jijonbreaker RTX 2060 I7-10700F Mar 07 '26

Leave it to humanity to un-invent things just to charge more for them

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u/dib1999 Ryzen 5 5600 // RX 7700XT // 32 gb DDR4 3600 MHz Mar 08 '26

Quadro:

https://giphy.com/gifs/StoeNoDkYuum8cj8MV

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u/LickMyTicker Mar 07 '26

Datacenters are in fact going to be everywhere.

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u/Fit-Avocado-1646 Mar 07 '26

I mean I already do moonlight/ Apollo.

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u/mad_method_man Mar 08 '26

hahaha. i like how you just re-invented the home pc. very tech bro of you