AI’s Rising Costs Cast Doubts on Cloud Gaming’s Future
Despite never gaining the same traction as major gaming consoles or premium gaming PCs, cloud gaming services have steadily persisted since their rise in the 2010s. Cloud gaming services let people play video games by streaming them live over the internet. The pitch is that you don’t have to buy expensive PC gear or invest in a game console plus the price of individual titles to play AAA (or lots of not-quite-AAA) games; you just need to stream them with a subscription.
Sure, Google’s ambitious Stadia gaming service shut down in 2023, but similar services that offer streaming video game play over an internet connection from Nvidia, Microsoft’s Xbox, Sony’s PlayStation and Amazon’s Prime have kept the dream alive.
But cloud gaming services have struggled to go mainstream due to the inherent challenge of delivering consistent gameplay in an inconsistent world of laggy internet connections and millions of hardware options....
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