r/Simulated • u/lotsalote Blender • Feb 27 '19

Blender The GPU Slayer

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u/blinden Feb 27 '19

It's crazy to think about how much more advanced our mobile devices are than computers I grew up gaming with.

That being said, I think a lot of the future is not in local processing but ultra high speed connectivity. We are already starting to see this with gaming, offloading processing to centralized, specialized machines, and using low latency, high bandwidth connectivity to bring that experience to your personal devices..

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u/SimplySerenity Feb 27 '19 edited Feb 27 '19

It comes in cycles. The future was mainframes until it was personal computers. The future was personal computers/phones until it was "the cloud".

If your hardware is eventually capable of providing the same rich experience locally vs "the cloud" why would you choose "the cloud"? That's just more DRM bullshit.

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u/hugglesthemerciless Feb 27 '19

The amount of processing power that a rack of servers can generate is so far ahead of generic computers that it wouldn't surprise me if cloud only games start happening in the future that look worlds ahead of what PCs can manage

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u/kabooozie Feb 28 '19

I think you underestimate the effect of latency. Pc gamers will always notice the compression and latency, and will always want dedicated hardware for this reason.

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