re: Xbox app to Samsung 2022 Smart TVs

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I give it 5 years or less. I’ve been using Xcloud and it has been fantastic.

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It'll definitely get to the point where every gaming company has an app you can download to any smart tv or device. I think it's great for people that want to try a game out before downloading 70gb of shite or for very casual gamers that don't want to invest in hardware yet (like parents with super young kids that want to play stuff). But there will always be bandwidth and latency issues for "serious" or competitive gamers

If the nearest cloud server to me is 200 miles away (that's very optimistic), the speed of light through fiber optic cable is roughly half what it is in a vacuum, so ~90 miles a millisecond. That's 2.2ms to get to the cloud, and 2.2ms back. So right away 4.4ms added to anything you do. That's also not counting jumps between you and the data center where latency is also added by the handling and routing of your data packet.

It will be a very viable option, especially in countries where hardware is insanely expensive, but I think hardware will always have somewhat of a presence