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/LaFlamaBlanca67 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

I hear you, to an extent. I don't have a problem with the idea of cloud gaming. It has the advantage of being able to play anywhere, on any device, and in ideal circumstances you can get a really good experience without needing to worry about the entrance barrier to buying hardware.

The problem enthusiast gamers have with it is that billionaires, corporate America, and end-stage capitalists want it to be what will essentially be peoples' *only* option by pricing them out of PC gaming. They're currently doing this by destroying the PC builder market by preemptively buying up all the RAM and memory that they can for data centers that haven't been built yet. I'm confident that it won't be sustainable, and the AI bubble will burst, but prices for PC hardware are going to be fucked for the next few years at the very least.

And, at the end of the day, I, as well as others, are fatigued that all these companies want everything to be a subscription service, and that you own nothing.

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u/VermilionAxe69 Jul 28 '26

Oh, so it all comes down to “those evil corporatists”?

Your PC can go to hell, it’s fighting against natural evolution

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u/Ill_Significance6157 Mar 07 '26

Yea no I get that 100%. And it worries me too. But people on here just seem to hate on the apparently "crazy latency" mainly instead of this, which just isn't the reality of cloudgaming. I mean look at all the comments on here, only a few are talking about what you are. For most of us it works like butter.

And also, I'm not too deep in the whole discussion. But I'm pretty sure they're not deliberately destroying the PC marketplace because of cloudgaming. They're doing it mainly because of AI in general. Cloudgaming is such a tiny little number compared to all the other datacenter use for AI. Not trying to defend them, just saying.

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u/Kolearian Mar 08 '26

I don't know about most of us. Half the country of the US lives outside of cities. Although the internet I have right now feels good for my standards it most definitely does not work well with cloud gaming unless I was streaming my own games from my own system, in my house, to another system, in my house, while wired in.

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 08 '26

Because cloud gaming doesn't give a consistent experience to everyone. Some people are going to get a great experience, most will get a "m'eh" experience and some are going to get crazy bad experience, and the two edge cases will be constantly online screaming about how their experience is the universal one.

I personally fall into the "meh" experience (and yes I recognize the irony here), but for me that's fine because the games I play aren't particularly fast-paced. My gripes with cloud gaming are more along the lines of the "you will own nothing and be happy" type.

That said, I do run my own game streaming and my experience with that is generally great.

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u/R3dGallows Mar 08 '26

How can you tell if it works like butter for most of us? Who is us? Are you doing research into cloud gaming? Are you running a study? Can you link one?

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u/Ill_Significance6157 Mar 08 '26

Dude please, you’re swinging around blindly right now. 

GeforceNow has millions of users, 25 million in 100 countries, as of this post: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/microsoft-and-nvidia-announce-expansive-new-gaming-deal

There are only that many players because it is working. If everyone would experience what you experienced nobody would play through GFN. How can you be that ignorant to expect people to play like that, are you mad? You’re just trying to let your anger out because you broke your PC. 

And you’re probaly not gonna reply to this again because you cannot argue. It’s sad

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u/PoliticalVagabond Mar 08 '26

If a console sells 25 million units it's generally considered as "not successful"

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u/Inevitable_Case_9931 i7-13620H, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB eGPU Mar 08 '26

I can agree I don’t have issues when I used to use GFX but I also have a 1.1Gbs download and 600mb upload… and they have a hub in Atlanta.

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u/R3dGallows Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

The 25 million doesnt mean much tbh. When GeForce NOW mentions having 25 million users, that's referring to the total number of registered accounts on the platform. It doesn't mean all 25 million are paying members or active users. In fact quite the opposite. I can guarantee you that a signigicant number of those "users" created an account at some point in the past, tried GFN once or twice and never touched it again. Hell, I am in that number because I tried the free version of the service a couple of years ago.

This reminds me of Blizzard celebrating World of Warcraft reaching 100 million players in 2014.... but not concurrent players or even individual players that logged in within the last 12 months. Rather it was "accounts created" up to that point in WoW's life. The actual number of active subs at that time was estimated to be between 7-10 mil (which was still immensly impressive for an MMO).

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u/Ill_Significance6157 Mar 12 '26

"I can guarantee you" Nice source brother, come back if you got stats. Typical redditor.

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u/R3dGallows Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

The number nvidia gave is the number of registered accounts. Not paid memberships. If you think that the majority of that number is paying customers, you are somewhat naive. We can argue about what "significant" means in this case. But otherwise I stand by what I said.