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BlueCrystalTear posted...

I feel that consoles are a necessity because those localize the GPUs - I don't know how long it will take for a remote graphics streamer to actively work.

i think it already does work if you are lucky- i.e., a PC player hooked up to an ethernet cable living in an area with strong internet reasonably close to the service's data centers. for slower paced or even turn-based games it works just fine for other users, too

gaming pcs/consoles are still equal or better 97% of the time, because all of the streamed games are just normal PC/console games, but streamed. the only current use case is someone who somehow has great internet but a mediocre gaming setup

longer term, i'd love to see large-scale multiplayer games that could never reasonably run on a consumer machine, but can run on a server and stream to a hundred+ players simultaneously

i'll admit it's a solution in search of a problem. and i don't think there's a way for a company to realistically make that financial leap successfully, but it's fun to think about