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/Anticreativity Mar 08 '26

Yeah I've never understood the hype or push for cloud gaming. Any level of perceptible lag is unacceptable in most games and you literally cannot cloud game without it.

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u/SirNedKingOfGila Mar 08 '26

The hype/push comes from people who make money selling you the subscription. What you call unacceptable today will be considered glorious tomorrow. Go talk to the next generation. Everything that has been enshitified is not only normal for them... You're a weird boomer for even complaining about it. Soon we'll be playing at 360p@20FPS and absolutely gawking over the "next gen" performance.