[qwertycrackers]

Cloud gaming is crap and any actual gamer will tell you that. The niche of gamers casual enough to not care about playing over network latency but serious enough to pay real money for cloud gaming is microscopic.

[WarmWash]

>The niche of gamers casual enough to not care about playing over network latency

In the saddest way possible, the niche of gamers are people playing on desktops with ethernet connections.

The majority of gamers are buying booster packs on mobile games.

[int_19h]

Yes, but that majority doesn't need cloud gaming precisely because those games run just fine on their phone - there's no benefit in putting them in the cloud, that was supposed to be for fancy stuff where you need a beefy GPU for the eye candy.

[toephu2]

It's not 2023 anymore. Have you tried cloud gaming in 2026? I can barely tell it's connected to the cloud.

[amlib]

Yes, it's amazing because it's streaming directly from a computer in the room behind me. :)

[johnvanommen]

And the increases in network speed are one of the last bastions of Moores Law.