Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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you are aware that that video is from 2019, right? that stadia team worked on improving their technology stack all that time, right? you think that all those people, including Digital Foundry folks, claiming that stadia is a good place to play cyberpunk, are delusional?
or perhaps you just have no idea what you're talking about, because your opinion about stadia is based on hearsay from more than a year ago instead of first hand experience?
Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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we're talking about hardware, gpus specifically, and it just so happens that microsoft is in a business of manufacturing those. as a result, i guess they know a bit more about the subject than you do.
Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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THE. PRICE. PER. TRANSISTOR. WILL. NOT. BE. GOING. DOWN. MUCH. ANYMORE.
this is industry-wide problem, affecting both gpus and cpus. until technological breakthrough happens, it won't be going anywhere either.
sure, there are profit margins that can get cuts, in theory. in practice, when your corporation's stock is publicly traded, you have obligations towards your investors. you have to increase profits and increase company evaluation, not decrease them.
and the truth is, they don't have to cut their profit margins at all. look at what's going on with gpus right now. prices are simply insane, yet people buy everything. this isn't even because of miners, there's just enough people to buy the currently available stock at those prices. they have the money, they see the product, "200% msrp? whatever", they click buy. why would anyone drop their prices in such situation?
once the availability gets better (not so fast), prices will go down to their normal values, but next generations of hardware - both gpus and cpus - will cost more (at least faster chips - with more transistors). and guess what happens when the average consumer can no longer afford that top of the line chips? streaming becomes a thing and automatically corporations like google, microsoft and amazon need more of those chips. average customer won't buy those chips - corporations will. why would they lower their prices at that point? they have to sell their chips with maximum profit. they don't have to sell them to YOU.
Originally posted by Dukenukemx
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besides, i gave you the picture, wether you elect to ignore it, won't change it. microsoft, amazon and google are all preparing for what's ahead, because they know game streaming market will be worth billions. it's a long term game and whatever FUD people spread about it now, doesn't matter for them at all.
it isn't a bad thing for linux though, which you could perhaps notice if you weren't so blinded with hatred. once current AAA games will be running mostly in the cloud, playing them on linux is straightforward. launch chromium, done. but that isn't even the biggest thing.
when new blockbusters move to the cloud, all that remains for the average gamer to play on his pc are older games. and we all know how well microsoft supports older apis and games - dx9 is a prime example. at that point linux will be the best choice for gaming, simply because it is better at supporting older software and hardware.
but please, go ahead and "REEEEE" because the gaming world doesn't revolve around linux just yet.
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