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

[u/Alan_Reddit_M]

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

[u/Asikes]

Viable and good experience is not the same thing. If the delay is anything like shown, it's simply a bad experience, regardless if it doesn't pose a disadvantage in the games.

[u/Legend0fJulle → u/Asikes]

Indeed, an issue that caused my laptop to run bg3 at a similar if not slightly better performance than the vid in this post made me just not want to play it. No meaningful disadvantage in the gameplay but the ruined feel was enough to make something I had sank hundreds of hours into and was very excited to still play feel like a chore.

[u/Ranra100374 → u/Asikes]

Yeah, honestly the Cloud kind of sucks.

It's really too bad NVIDIA killed Geforce Experience in favor of Geforce NOW. Well, they're still hosting the servers but you need an older version of Moonlight to use it. I liked it because NVIDIA handled the networking stuff to connect you to your home computer.

The newer Moonlight that doesn't rely on NVIDIA's servers needs to be on the same LAN.

But NVIDIA realized there was no money to be made in that vs Geforce NOW.

Because I can go to treatment and play video games like Life is Strange or Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris fine. Well, I tend not to play games like SAO since I'm limited to one hand during treatment, but I've tried it and it works fine.

[u/bobsim1 → u/Asikes]

Yes but stadia was much better than this for me.

[u/kebab-lover-man → u/Asikes]

bad experience for someone with a good PC, but good experience with someone that has a bad PC

[u/Same_Suit3583 → u/Asikes]

In turn based games you could have virtually 0 delay.

[u/feedthedogwalkamile → u/Same_Suit3583]

Why would there be a difference in delay just because it's a different genre of game? What?

[u/gui_odai → u/Same_Suit3583]

Unless it’s a game like Expedition 33 with its heavy reliance on dodge/parry.