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The dark side of game streaming

If I can take my crappy 10-year-old Pentium with its no-name AIB, put in a 5g NIC for $55, and play 2020 FPS games, why would I ever buy a new PC or game card? This is a question many hardware game suppliers are asking themselves. Cloud gaming goes back to OnLive in 2003 and has progressed as bandwidth speeds ...

Jon Peddie

If I can take my crappy 10-year-old Pentium with its no-name AIB, put in a 5g NIC for $55, and play 2020 FPS games, why would I ever buy a new PC or game card? This is a question many hardware game suppliers are asking themselves. Cloud gaming goes back to OnLive in 2003 and has progressed as bandwidth speeds improved. In 2003 3G was offering download speeds up to 2 Mbps. Today just about everyone has 4G bandwidth, and 5G is rolling out, which will take us to 70+ Mbps. Speed won’t be a problem, and unless you live
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