Although the price of graphics cards around the world is constantly decreasing, graphics cards such as RTX 3080 10GB, RTX 3060, and RTX 3070 are still ridiculously expensive. Even the best-case RTX 3080 Ti is still 33% above the price. What should I do if I can't buy a graphics card? Some players have taken the attention of cloud gaming.
Cloud games (also known as cloud games) are games that transmit game screens online to the user terminal through cloud computing, allowing users to play games without a game console. You can think of it as a cloud-based Internet café where you can play the game you want to experience anytime, anywhere (cross-out) as long as you recharge or spend a month.
In fact, since 2010, OnLive launched the online game service, it has been more than 10 years now, and from the early 100 yuan to the current 30 yuan monthly subscription, the price is also constantly decreasing, it looks beautiful, right? But if you're counting on cloud gaming to replace computers, you're just like that.
User privacy cannot be guaranteed
The first thing to consider in cloud gaming is personal privacy. Even if you don't care about the sense of belonging that AAA masterpiece is not in your computer, your privacy always has to be considered, then your personal information when you log in is at risk of being stolen if it is eavesdropped, and if it is a common password of multiple accounts, it will be a cup.
In addition, your archiving and operation records in the cloud are also transparent for the cloud game platform, and the protection of user privacy can only rely on the consciousness of the service provider, think about your Baidu network disk, do you dare to believe in the cloud game platform?
Network latency is twice as sour
An unavoidable problem with cloud gaming is latency. In any case, the speed of signal transmission will not exceed the speed of light, which is doomed to delay between you and the server of the cloud game, and it will be subject to a double delay of transmission to and from the cloud.
50ms delay do you accept
In addition, due to the cost impact, cloud game merchants are more inclined to place servers in the suburbs of small cities with low land prices, which means that most users will be far away from the server, coupled with the latency of cloud servers, it is difficult for most players to enjoy the delay of less than 20ms.
A latency of 68ms is a high standard
For some games, the 50ms delay is still acceptable, but it is still very dependent on the network environment, and if you want to carry out fierce competitive confrontation, then cloud games will directly quit.
Internet cafes bring their own dry food at the price
Cloud gaming is actually a bit like a cloud internet café, but unlike an internet café, you have to have your own monitor and keyboard and mouse. In terms of price, cloud games are not much cheaper than Internet cafes, basically following the higher the performance, the higher the picture quality, the more expensive the price.
From the current price point of view, cloud games are generally 2 yuan / hour, the price of high configuration will be more expensive, because the same performance is distributed on multiple computers than consolidated together, the general cloud computer uses 2000 hours can cover the same configuration of the host cost, if you play 3 hours a day, less than 2 years The cost is equivalent to buying a host with the same configuration.
It should also be noted that many games are only launched on a few cloud gaming platforms due to copyright issues, and more often you still have to spend money to buy games, which returns to the previous account security issues.
In addition, most players play the time is relatively close, many platforms will appear in the queue of the grand situation, if you do not want to spend money to open a membership, then you have to wait for 1 hour or even longer, perhaps some players will directly impulse to buy a computer of their own.