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This dichotomy of player opinions seems to be present any time I see a discussion about Stadia or cloud gaming. I haven't tried it myself so I don't have a truly informed opinion, but just based on technical factors I'm extremely skeptical.

However there does seem to be legitimate portion of the audience that either can't tell or simply doesn't care about frame lag/latency issues. I would guess that group is relatively small though. Also as PC and console hardware continues to improve and 4k+/144hz+ gaming becomes more commonplace, cloud gaming is just going to be left in the dust.

[AustinDev]

Whenever I've advised VCs on cloud gaming tech, I always point out that you can have the beefiest most expensive hardware at the edge, but you'll never be faster than a one meter HDMI/VGA/RCA cable. It's just physics.

Cloud gaming will work great when we have FTL transmission of data or possibly a datacenter in every 7-11/Walmart.