• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    On the plus side, all the game companies are going to finally start optimizing games and quit pushing out more and more demanding shit. A big win for smaller devs and creative\fun game developers too. My steam deck and old PC gonna keep on winning.

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        1 day ago

        What do you expect? Few will be able to afford to play their whizbang-5000 games. We already saw it play out with VR.

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          You might be right. But charging them $15 a month to stream their whizbang-5000 games is still an option. Especially for Microsoft and Sony. (And Amazon wants in on that too.)

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              I will say technologically my trials of both Google Stadia and Xbox Live Play Anywhere were both impressive and ran well for single player and co-op games. But the idea of actually paying an ongoing fee to play my games? Fuck that.

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                  Yeah, perhaps they’ll start bundling network play time with the game and we won’t have a choice aside from playing our existing games.