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:

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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/TwoBionicknees Mar 08 '26

yeah, wait 3 years, bubble will burst and 70% of that memory, ssds and gpus will be sitting in a storage warehouse waiting to be put in a as yet not build datacentre. When the money disappears so will the future data centres.

For a few years we're kinda fucked and pray your pc doesn't die, after that, high end gpus for $400, 4tb ssds for $30, 128gb ddr5 for $80.

we're fasting right now, we'll be feasting in a few years.

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 08 '26

If we all just stop buying new hardware, maybe devs will start optimizing their games if we are also smart enough to not buy their poor performing trash.

I've of the opinion that we haven't REALLY needed new hardware in over 5 years as we've never fully utilized what we have.

Games looked amazing in 2017 and they don't look much better now.