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All games will be streamed, with a subscription
Retroarch disagrees. I don’t need your newfangled enshittified slop. I have megaman X and wine.
Any sub 500 dollar gpu can play any game that’s not ray traced unreal engine 5 slop. Lots of games to choose from the last 40+ years. The only limiting factor is ram prices sadly.
Shhh! Don't give them any ideas!
They’ve already been pushing this for like a decade now. GeForce now has been a thing since like 2015.
This is true. And services like Xbox Game Pass, ugh. I mean, it sounds nice in theory being able to play anything that's on the subscription. But at the same time, you don't own anything! Seems any and all companies are driving consumers in that direction...
Way too late. This has been a talking point for a while. The AI bubble will burst but that doesn‘t mean they‘ll just return to their roots. Those new data centers need a use case and they need a good reason to keep building more.
I guess the silver lining is that this plan B won‘t work out either so we‘ll have to see. But until then we better take good care of our current hardware. It will probably have to last a good while longer.
Cloud computing is the real endgame. The big tech bros want to price consumers out of the PC hardware market (GPUs, RAM, NVMe, etc.) so they can offer a cloud solution via subscription model.
E.g.: https://www.sdxcentral.com/control-plane/jeff-bezos-wants-you-to-rent-cloud-space-instead-of-buying-pcs-for-gamers-thats-truly-terrible/
Annoying bastard. As if destroying mom-and-pop stores and malls weren't enough.
These Chinese are catching up very quickly on GPUs, RAM, etc.
This would be a massive own goal for the existing incumbents.
If the end game is cloud, they will tariff the shit out of these. For exemple i bought slimeVR hard ware, from Europe 280€, from china (190€ + tarif 66€) from China coming from US 240€
Yeah, luckily in Australia, we are getting Chinese stuff without massive tariffs.
I see BYD cars everywhere.
I don't know that they want to, but as economic inequality increases it will happen. Without a middle class, there's not much of a market for high-end bleeding edge gaming PCs
Just stop playing games, and they will have no hold over you.
Or code your own, it's simple to code a simple game.
This might be enough for anyone that only enjoys tic-tac-toe or maybe checkers.
In a million years, I couldn’t code The Last of Us Part 3. I’m at their mercy
Damn, I was hoping people would be happy with 2006 style flash coding.
It's been twenty years, and I still haven't beat Peasant's Quest...
Well, today's the day! Get on with it!