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From what I’ve read, they don’t care because they don’t want us buying them. Their big picture sees us doing online cloud gaming through a virtual computer that you connect to. They no longer want anybody to have home PC’s.
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When that happens, its imperitive that you dont participate. We need to reuse, and repair current and older machines.
I’d much rather game on old hardware or janky arm based stuff than use hardware as a service, even if it means being 10+ years behind in performance. There are so many great games that will run on pretty much anything
I got a XP PC for playing The Sims 3 and some Lego games and such on it. The PC was my first ever PC, and I have since upgraded it with free parts I have found in the trash.. You won't believe what kind of top-notch-at-the-time things people just throw away. It's quite pleasant lil machine, my lil machine.
That’s awesome! Unfortunately I have a pretty high hardware fail rate, at least for motherboards and gpu’s. But I also have/had a penchant for overclocking everything, so guess I’m kind of asking for it. Most spectacularly had a nvidia 780i sli motherboard let the smoke out from running a q6600 at 3.2ghz for a few years. That was a rad platform, still feel kinda bad about that one tbh
Just think how cheap gaming would be when it's all on old hardware too. Or when you can get a raspberry pi 8 and just emulate it.
I ardently wish that gamers, or at least people who spend money on games, were better at withholding their filthy lucre.
that's fine. my library is big enough that I probably don't need to buy a single game for the rest of my life
I will, but I won't need to.
But the lag!
Dooms all these yes. There is no cheating the speed of light
Imagine instead of cloud gaming we bring this hardware directly to the customer by renting it to them. Reduced latency but still maintaining those hefty profit margins.
Nah honestly, there is enough games in existence that I will never, ever use shit like cloud gaming. I'd rather stop alltogether.