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Don't be surprised about them moving to cloud gaming even more which they already have with Xbox cloud gaming and in the future, the real game will be hidden and simulated behind a world model.

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Moving to cloud gaming would mean cutting off any chance of selling to most of the world. >50ms for user input is very noticable, and >100ms people just won't pay for it. You also need very low packet loss and a reasonable amount of bandwidth. Those three requirements can be met for most (but notably not all!) of NA... but elsewhere? Not as much.

And yet people then also bash the US and say the US has terrible internet connectivity compared to the rest of the world where you can get 100 gigabit internet on every street corner for €5/mo.

I think the point is you'd need to host and run the game from all over the world to serve customers all over the world.

I have no idea how difficult that is for large publishers though. I'd guess hard since Google gave up on stadia

Microsoft already has this infrastructure though, and I imagine would be interested in continuing to expand it even more as time goes own regardless of cloud gaming.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-...

Playstation offers this already in a ton of European countries as well as Japan and South Korea.

Google gives up on most things, doesn't mean it was overly challenging for them to do. I guess running an RSS aggregation platform is also too difficult for anyone else to do based on the logic of "well Google decided to quit".

It offers this in the EU countries with good internet and Korea which also has good internet (Japan's internet is almost hilariously bad, I have no idea how they manage it there)

I just always assumed that's what was motivating the "space datacenters" noise, if it was based in anything rational at all. Run latency-sensitive things in the Starlink network itself to expand those markets...

Companies have been trying to solve the "be able to show and hide" the same thing paradox for decades now.

The AI will still recreate a game that it can view and interact with.

I'm not convinced. All the "AI built this AAA-like game" examples I've seen involve stealing real AAA assets. That's just piracy, we always had that.

And I’ve yet to see any of them at AAA quality. Albeit, that’s not even a hard bar for some of the AAA games coming out, but still.

On the other hand we have full steam os on android last month.

Conveniently, models are improving and I expect they’ll be able to create a port just based on a video of gameplay soon, if not already.

Yup. Not just aaa, all games that can afford to.

Massive chance these recompilations just ruined gaming for everyone.

Like on your own- do whatever.

As soon as you share it - you actually harm players, not help them

>Massive chance these recompilations just ruined gaming for everyone.

Nah that was microtransactions and associated corporate greed.

If we have good enough AI to force companies to do this, we have good enough AI to build any shit we want and we'll build better shit than what these companies are putting out.

There are many levels to "ruined" and it always can get worse.

>> and we'll build better shit than what these companies are putting out. feel free to share what you've built. Sure its possible just need to be real here - 1% will be good, 99% will be slop. And that 1% will down in that slop.

As a result though in theory you can make some games better than existing ones - the overall effect is net negative.

Video game piracy has been around for decades, you can get a cracked copy of nearly every game. Even some games like Black Ops II has a custom server browser and matchmaking servers for pirated copies.

We really need to bring back the thumbscrews for all these pesky hackers

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