apiso t1_iu2jpf9 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:00 AM

Reply to comment by 4huggies in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

This is a solid late 90s early 00s take.

We will, in the not-too-distant future laugh that we ever owned anything besides a screen and the hardware it takes to interact via stream. Real local processing of any kind will eventually be seen as a past blip in the history of personal entertainment experience like B&W TV, Walkmans, RCA cables, TiVo, iPods, etc.

Stadia was too early and made a lot of mistakes, but they were not barking up the wrong tree.

Edit/Add: I’m not advocating for that future. It’s just the overwhelmingly obvious one because of how it lines up competition outcomes and business objectives to “win” in a marketplace (and where businesses never do more than “lease” you a product - they own your stuff and charge you to use it in perpetuity)

cajonero t1_iu338rj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:51 AM

You might be right, but I personally don’t think it’s as inevitable as you believe. Centralized data processing would require massive investments in infrastructure, across the whole internet-connected world. It’s an unreal amount of bandwidth if you think about it. It’s not impossible, just staggering and with an incredibly wide impact.