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[–] Kinglink 22 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I wonder if this is just a Hail Mary to try to stop the fear that the merger will make Microsoft the most dominant face in streaming.

Even if it's agreed upon, it just means in two generations once internet speeds reach where they need to be for streaming to be feasible, Microsoft will get those rights back. Streaming means next to nothing today, but the fear is in a couple generations, that's going to be the future of gaming, especially seeing how much publishers want to stop gamers from owning anything.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Internet speeds are already fast enough. The problem is latency and it's impossible to fix. You can't beat the speed of light. You just can't have a 200ms delay between your controller and something happening in the screen.

[–] Lord_Logjam 1 points 1 year ago

I was playing Hollow Knight on Gamepass streaming the other day. It's a game that would be just awful to play with any real latency, and it was absolutely fine. There was no perceivable latency.

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