Sony starts testing cloud streaming PS5 games
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I feel like it's hard enough to stream PS1-PS3 games without some crazy lag, depending on where you are and how things are. I can't imagine how choppy and insane it's gonna be to do a PS5 game, not to mention the bandwidth it would take has to be insane, right?
i am a bit of a luddite though, so I don't understand it very well. It just seems crazy to me
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But a video is a set thing. A video game has to change dynamically and have a bunch…
Wait
I think I got it?
Are you actually playing the game on the server far away and they’re streaming THAT to you??? Like you’re not playing a streamed game live on your system, you’re playing it on the cloud or wherever and then stream what you’re doing to you?
Is that it?
As far as your client is concerned it’s a video that takes a lot of inputs from a controller. It knows nothing else and isn’t doing anything but accepting input and processing the video the same as watching Netflix.
So yeah, doesn’t matter from the client perspective if it’s PS3/4/5 level of game.
Now it matters a lot on the sever side. That hardware needs to be much more capable.
You got it! You are sending input to a remote system, it is inputting it on a console on their side and streaming the video to you. That is why ping time is so important, because that is the lag of your input to the remote console.