Yup, it makes sense from their point of view... it potentially opens up a much larger market.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:30 AM <fiber...@mail.com> wrote: > Money. The answer is always money. > > Gaming is a 138 billion dollar market. Over half of that is mobile gaming. > The majority of that in turn is casual gaming, particularly free to play > games. > > All this game streaming tech is an attempt to get at those casual gamers > that won't build gaming PCs or buy consoles. The idea is to remove barriers > to adoption and remove friction from on-boarding gamers and bilk them for > cash. > > If this happens to cause some pain to ISPs then that's just collateral > damage. > > Jared > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 27, 2019 > *From:* "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com> > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now > I was just sitting here wondering what the reason is. Moving the graphics > processing to the cloud means....what? > > I suppose you can play good games on crummy hardware. > It's possible there's an energy savings in moving the computation to a > data center where compute loads can be managed. > > Are those reasons really compelling enough to push that much stuff onto > the network? What am I not seeing? > > -Adam > > > On 3/27/2019, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Holy bandwidth, Batman! > > > > It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were > electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of them. > Not just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an incandescent bulb > or a 3 gallon toilet. > > > > Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important > thing (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get everyone > faster and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the equivalent of > leaving the lights on and the water running when we’re not home. If > someone suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth, he would be laughed > at. So don’t use a game console, use one somewhere else and stream 40-50 > Mbps of video over the Internet to your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to > join the game, each with their own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the > people putting umpteen 1080p cameras around their house and then sitting in > their living room watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News > to every screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to > room … which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each > screen gets its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same > show. > > > > I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth conservation > movement, we will just keep using more and more and more. That convinces > me we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Sterling Jacobson > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now > > > > Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system. > > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native. > > > > This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely transmitting > graphics to your local screen. > > > > -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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