I wonder if XBox realizes that their player base isn’t locked into their ecosystem…
And they are certainly far from the only option.
Only 50 center per hour, you say? I mean it’s only 75 cents, that won’t even buy a soda anymore. Who wouldn’t pay a dollar an hour to play the games they love?
Fuck Microsoft
>laughs in piracy
Fuck everything about that. Fuck that to hell and back again not a hobbits tale.
Stadia didn’t charge to stream, though I suppose if it still existed it probably would by now.
the most shocking thing about stadia is that they released the means to de-fuck the stadia controller so it could be used as a normal pc controller
Important point of clarification- this is about streaming from the cloud, using an Xbox or GPU in the cloud to play the game. This makes sense as buying the game or not, you are still using cloud resources.
Xbox Remote Play, which runs the game on your home Xbox and streams from your house to wherever you are, is free.
Ya at current memory and server gpu prices it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they aren’t even making any money at 40c/hr.
there was something the other day about microsoft having warehouses of GPUs for datacenters that arent even built yet.
They could probably take 1% of those to cover it without any additional costs for them.
this makes sense
No it doesn’t
Well, what you say does, but running games in the cloud doesn’t make sense in any logical way except for that that the owner of said cloud will be walking to the bank laughing his ass off
Oh I agree paying to rent a cloud xbox when you have one sitting at home is fucking stupid. A lot of cloud everything is fucking stupid, and I say that as an IT person who’s been fighting cloud-itis since the term ‘cloud computing’ became a thing.
Idk, I think you’re immediately jumping to the conclusions of “they’re trying to make us all rent everything”, which, while most likely isn’t wrong, is also obscuring some potential for “Hey look, I can play less-response-time-intensive xbox games on my fricking phone with good wifi, because of amazing compression technology”
This is an important note, the headline grabbed my attention but isn’t entirely accurate.
Xbox Developers: Hell yeah! Playstation is shooting themselves in the foot. All we have to do is sit back and we’ll kill it.
Xbox Business : or… hold my beer.
Microsoft wants to charge for providing a service? That seems completely fair. Streaming a game isn’t free for them.
IDK, maybe they could put on some kind of media so that users could have the game and not need live service? Like some kind of optical disc? They could charge for add-on DLC, like they used to. Software could be downloaded and stored locally…once. y’know, without being streamed?
And gamers could rent servers. Like they used to. And that could be an income stream for a company.
I’m not arguing that Microsoft is some saint or that they’ve done nothing wrong. This just seems like a dumb reason to get mad at them. If you buy a digital game from Microsoft and have an internet connection solid enough to stream the game, you likely have the bandwidth to download the game.
You can still buy Xbox games on disc (I sometimes buy discount games used that I missed the first time around). And I read recently that signs are pointing to the next Xbox also having a disc drive for games.
I’m with you on private/rented servers for sure. I still remember all the hoopla about support for dedicated/private servers vanishing the first time around.
Oh fack off
Good evening to you as well.
If I bought the game, why would I be streaming it anyway?
I’m not upgrading anytime soon with current RAM/storage prices, which means I’m stuck on 16GB of RAM for now. But eventually that won’t be enough. For somebody who doesn’t already have a halfway decent computer and doesn’t have a ton of time to game, I can see this being a much better deal than owning your own computer (provided your internet latency and bufferbloat are good enough). For the amount of time I actually use my computer for gaming I know it would be.
I was one of the people who was actually happy with stadia (although my ping was 5ms with symmetrical gigabit actually hitting the numbers at the time) the controller support was fantastic and it cost $15 a month including some games.
Streaming to steam deck is not a bad idea, actually. It gets more battery life and you can do AAA games at 60 FPS
I would just do it from the desktop, though
Yeah… no.
There’s no way in Hell.
I will play Archon on my Commodore 64, fuck this noise.
If I saw what emulation and decomp/recomps are doing I would grab at any penny I saw.
That is just the intro price. Soon with will be $5 an hour and go up from there if you want a “premium” experience.
We all know, this numbers don’t look sustainable, it will shittyfi once they have your library hostage.
MS just patented ADS on gameplay…
Yup, it’ll be the Disney Fast Pass all over again.
You can thank GeForce NOW switching to an hourly limit model that ended up being successful because people are stupid.
