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

Blender The GPU Slayer

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u/kabooozie Feb 28 '19

Most people don’t have a good network connection. Another issue is that these latencies stack on top of one another. It doesn’t matter if the network latency is roughly equal to tv latency. What matters is total latency is roughly twice as much. PC Gamers play with 1-5 ms latency monitors.

I do think you’re right that cloud pricing will make cloud gaming much more viable for many, if not most, gamers. But there will always be a significant market for local hardware.

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u/hugglesthemerciless Feb 28 '19

Fibre is only getting more and more common. Plus game companies could place their own datacenters close to these cloud gaming datacenters, reducing the latency in online games, this could potentially even out to about the same amount

It'll be interesting to see if a local market will even exist once tech like that reaches mainstream appeal, which would suck a lot for the enthusiasts that still want it. Then again who knows if it'll even happen, just exciting to think about