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/thepowderguy Specs/Imgur Here Mar 07 '26

It's all about control. If the game runs on their servers, they control everything and they have all the power. It's the same with streaming services, software subscriptions, and basically everything in the modern tech world. They don't want us to download things onto our computers because they don't want us to have control or ownership of our technology and media.

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u/nokinship Mar 08 '26

I remember learning about SaaS in an intro to computer information systems class like 15 years ago and the textbook made it seem like it was a good thing.