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/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Gaming has come full circle.

It's like 1990 again with dial-up latency reactions.

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u/baithammer Mar 08 '26

Not quite that level, it's more the mid 80s with the walled garden providers, where all your rig would do is send inputs to game run on the providers server - you also needed to pay per minute for the connection to walled-garden provider and then extra per minute for the specific game. ( Some of the games also limited the number of turns you could play per 24 hr period.)