Does Cloud Gaming Still SUCK In 2024?

I test a bunch of cloud gaming services to see how well they hold up in 2024. Some of them did worse than others.

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[mohammadismaeel]

When I was a child, I used to think that if my computer can play a YouTube video of a certain gameplay it means that it can run the game perfectly. Boy was I in for a big disappointment

[sokarash]

I think Shadow started as a game-streaming company, but then got bought up by a enterprise-streaming-service, which then sold off about 2/3 of the GPUs at the height of the scalpocalypse and seems to now use the name.

[Zatchillac]

That Shadow PC you said it doesn't come with any storage but on the screen it shows it comes with 512GB SSD for the C drive. That storage you added was for the D drive

[Kilo]

I think the biggest hurdle for cloud gaming, at least in the US, is ancient infrastructure. ISPs were given billions to upgrade the Internet infrastructure, which should have been fiber lines, was simply pocketed.

That Logitech handheld looks childish, like a Leapfrog device. $300 is absolutely mental.

[UltraVegito-]

Dawid: *ah yes the cloud gaming technique I haven't used since the heian era*

[dbsterben]

What I find ridiculous is you could build a amd 1400 with rx580 pc for a similar price to a year of the subscription

[KreekyCraftyClips]

Cloud gaming doesn't suck people's wifi does

[malcolmmoore]

Hosting your own cloud gaming with moonlight on your PC or using PSplay to connect to your PlayStation (especially when the hosting devices are wired) has been revolutionary for me

[fatrobin]

I remember seeing something on the retro one before... I believe you can have multiple people connect in to have online couch multiplayer given old games typically only have local multiplayer.

[brandnew]

I have an RTX 3060 laptop and my wife and I really wanted to play couch co-op Baldur's Gate 3 together. We subscribed to the top tier GeForce Now so we could play on our 77" LG G2 and it worked flawlessly. I will say that if you want to play games that benefit from the high tier hardware and do not require the fast responsiveness then it will work perfectly.

Perhaps it's because we played through an Nvidia Shield with a wired connection, but there is no noticeable latency in a game like that.

[hiawa]

The G-Cloud has become my portable Xbox and Playstation handheld thanks to remote play, and it is now my retro go device as I now have all of the retro apps running flawlessly. It is now my portable Dreamcast, PSP, N64, PS1, Gamcube, Mame, Super Nes, Genesis player on the go. I love the G-Cloud.

[malvinchau]

Queues (for GFN free) on busy times can take up to hours to actually get into a game. I used to have priority but just decided to build my own system instead. And also, sometimes the priority does have a queue, which is annoying.

[actioncooltv]

well i tested GFN, XCloud, PSN, Stadia, Luna, Netflix with different devices and i got by far the best expirience with GFN and the Logitech G Cloud at least in Europe. I think the G Cloud is a Great device but it is too expensive. 200 €/$ max would be a good start. BTW, the Backbone Phone Controller is licensed with Playstation, so it should work nativly with PSN and a phone. Love your Content, keep up the good work.

[A.DanielPop]

There's a ghost pinching your t-shirt in the first part of the video.

[lemagreengreen]

I have always wanted to see a tour of the GeForce Now data centers, it must be a pretty impressive operation.

[danngamerz]

for me, i dont really have a problem about latency in geforcenow. maybe i am closer to the servers. xbox cloud is quite good just like he said. i could not really test other platforms like shadow and playstation premium but i did try oneplay which is available in asia and that is good aswell.

[HunTaoLee]

The cost of cloud gaming (including premium internet cable connectiong) cost a lot...The Geforce Now (AU) entry level doesn't support RT, so get an 2nd hand gpu is more cost effective....

[blaux]

$300 for a device that does less than my phone with a gamepad attachment is criminal. If you're the person to buy a g cloud, then spend $60 a month on game streaming, you could buy an xbox and pay $30 a month for hundreds of games you can play locally, while also being able to gamestream them to your phone

[jeffreybarker]

More of my main man's one-liners! Let's I could watch Dawid talk about paint drying as long as he keeps using those off-the-wall descriptions. I love this man.

[PanzerShrimp]

The only "cloud" gaming setup that i have been impressed with was "moonlight game stream"

I played overwatch on my PHONE hundreds of miles away from my computer with like, 20-40ms of latency

Disclaimer: Using a bluetooth xbox controller connected to a samsung fold 5 (on LTE). Host computer is 7900x Ryzen with 3080ti (on gigabit fiber)
ironically this is probably the total opposite concept to this video given that the setup costs more than a moon made of premium cheese, guarded by space cows with laser beams.