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Or maybe you're in a small apartment without space for a desktop and don't have time to game that often so this is actually a better, more cost-effective solution?

Everybody's needs are different -- there's no reason to dismiss this.

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I find it hard to imagine I’ll ever live in an apartment where I won’t make space for a desktop.

But my experience with cloud gaming on EC2 has been pretty great too, as I’m getting older I feel less and less inclined to shell out for a new video card every two years.

As long as you are fine with 1080p cards from 5+ years ago are fun. 4k is generally not worth it.

1440 @ higher refresh than 60 and 4k@60 is very well worth it these days. especially on a nice LG OLED with gsync ;)'

HDR is pretty sweet, too.

HN is horrible for gaming/pc building advice. much better places.

Thats what I have and a 1070 is still find for most games.

> 1440 @ higher refresh than 60 and 4k@60

I've tried 1440p @ 144 hz and 4K @ 60 hz, and I'll take the 144 hz any day.

> HN is horrible for gaming/pc building advice. much better places.

Absolutely. I come here for my tech news and discussion, but gaming? No way.

I’m not trying to take away from streaming gaming, but I find a sub 1000 dollar gaming laptop can let you play a LOT of pc games (laptop being your smallest form factor and all-in-one package with a display, etc). Budget gaming laptop really helped me get away from my MacBook which basically killed the gamer in me for years (can’t play shit on it).

Last time I tried GeForce Now in beta, there was a very perceptible delay in input. Not sure if that’s still the case now.

Everyone going to this would ruin games. These streaming services will always have compression artifacts or jitter which kills immersion. Worse they will be more expensive over time than hardware. Even worse your games can get deleted and you won’t own anything. Worse there will he ads put into the stream.

Price is comparison will be variable. If you're chasing the highest specs and framerates, you're spending more than streaming would cost. As for artifacts, I played most of Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the highest specs through Shadow and noticed barely any difference between the gaming rig I have, running it at the same settings. And I still owned the game, it was installed from my Steam library. Not owning is a legitimate concern with something like Stadia, but not most other services. Ads in Streams? Again, maybe for Stadia if they release a free version, but for most services where you're basically buying a friendly front end to something like EC2 and running from your own library of games, no- Ads are not an issue. You're already paying for the commodity computing, and Amazon or whoever will no more insert ads to game streams than they would an RFP session.

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