what in the sam heck are you doing do you have any idea how impossible it is
to get these things
i'm glad i got here in time those gamers over there almost wasted their money
paying scalper prices for a GPU instead of saving it with this easy trick
yeah some of you probably know what's coming
due to the ongoing shortage of graphics cards i am about to recommend something
that you might not expect using a cloud gaming service temporarily
until the world returns to sanity but i
would never consider steering you guys wrong so before i settle on a
recommendation i'm just going to have to try
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the thing is normally the heavy lifting of gaming ai enemy and physics
computations 3d rendering you know that kind of stuff is handled by your pc but
every cloud gaming service has at least this in common it pushes all of that
work into a data center somewhere which feeds the final output in the form of a
video to your machine over the internet
so that's why the system requirements for all of the services that we're
trying today are similar to the requirements for watching high
definition video on youtube or netflix
now you will be making some compromises image quality won't be as good kind of
like how 4k youtube doesn't look as good as 1080p on blu-ray and you can expect
to experience some latency like how zoom calls always have a slight delay when
people talk but at anywhere from 10 to
15 a month you could afford about five
years of cloud gaming service for the price of a scalper markup on an rtx
3070. let's kick things off then with
GeForce now from our good friends over at NVIDIA
after the battle of cair mohen the defenders licked their wounds and
mourned their losses save siri who began
to plan her revenge on the google assistant and alexa
she woke your alt one night gerald excuse me and urged him to travel with
her to villain to the top of bald mountain
it's an old mountain lost its hair when its kids got all
back talky man that looks good don't it
the advantages of GeForce now are many NVIDIA has been working on this
technology for a long time and they're deeply experienced when it comes to pc
gaming you also get NVIDIA exclusive eye candy like rtx real-time ray tracing
hair works etc etc and it's pretty ain't it
i feel like i'm just i'm in a morgue here is it pretty or not it's the
witcher 3 there's only one right answer it's
pretty in a game like this honestly where there's already kind of a leggy
feel to the camera movements with the mouse i hardly notice the latency
have you tried cloud gaming david what do you do you find there's a difference
from one type of game to another no for sure
no thank you yeah i'll do like story based games yeah
well remember too we've got it blown up on an 88-inch tv
if you're on a 48 say for example if you knew anyone who had a tv like that
i think it would look a lot more reasonable
and as good as GeForce now is it's not magic it's limited to 1080p at 60fps if
you look closely you will notice compression artifacts particularly when
there's a lot of motion on screen and finally for competitive games like this
the additional latency is going to make it pretty difficult to keep up with very
good players i gotta say rocket league's visual style
which is kind of clean but then with like fine details in the grass and stuff
it does not lend itself well to this kind of video compression
oh god i suck at this game
no that's not why
i'm not going to make excuses wow all right i think that's quite enough of
that other highlights include the complete access to in-game controls and quality
settings the very low system requirements for your streaming device
compatibility with both Android and iOS in addition to of course mac and pc and
their free trial which lets you decide for yourself if it's worth the price of
admission with a catch the free trial works for an hour at a
time and you have to wait in line to use it so you can see right now there's
24 gamers ahead of me also the hardware
isn't as good with rtx on not being an option if that's something that you
wanted to experience for my part ain't nobody got time to sit and wait
for these other gamers so let's see what sony has to offer after all while pc
gaming does have its benefits playing sony exclusive titles like god of war or
the last of us isn't one of them i was initially
surprised to see a lower price for sony's service considering that it
actually includes some games so save your money and buy a water bottle on
lttstore.com right maybe not the ui is so bad that it's
hard to believe it's even from the same company that makes the playstation 5.
unless you are on a playstation using ps now there is literally no search
function to find games you just have to scroll through them and some things just
outright didn't work for us like launching pub g
let's actually give that a shot oh my god it has moved it
did i go down too many play history okay at least it's in my playhead i thought i
was going to have to find it again what's funny about this is that it was
supposed to just say something about not being able to get an update and not work
at all and that's what we were expecting to show you but
this is good too oh wow
oh 69 oh i think it's just completely
frozen i mean there are a few things about this
experience we can appreciate there's the glorious 720p medium details
the uh oh we've got just the right number of players in our game
nice
playstation now is not responding okay
uh let's try relaunching like does this thing even work are you just messing
with me closing your last game session i knew
what game session i never even got to play
how is this so bad are they not a multi-billion dollar company
uh wait i can't get this mouse cursor off the
screen are you kidding me right now
i can't get it off the screen i mean i mean controller compatibility
is a plus it supports dualshock three and four and actually even like things
like xbox controllers although the service does tell you hey we recommend a dual
shock three or four and actually has no support for the dual sense the
playstation 5 controller for whatever reason
i mean in fairness i guess their devs have plenty of other stuff to work on
okay so wait wait hold on a second so let's maximize now i'm not going to
worry about the mouse cursor let's wait 18 more minutes for this game to launch
this is enough to sour me on cloud gaming as a whole like i'd be like this
is crap honestly though the GeForce now experience wasn't perfect either like i
had to use my previous knowledge of kind of the bugginess of that platform from
just using GeForce like in-home streaming to fix that issue where the
game was like running but it was minimized and so i saw like a steam
window through my vm that would confuse an average user for
sure huzzah we managed to get into a
freaking game here
okay that's valid but remember the premise of today's video is
you're a pc gamer who's stuck without a video card you know you want
cross-platform compatibility i think so
that's fine but guys if it doesn't work on other platforms you don't get to
market it as working on other platforms yeah
and making matters even worse on a third person view style game like this like i
said with witcher 3 i don't normally notice the
kind of chugginess and lagginess of camera movements
but here it is very
very noticeable i mean if there's no other way to play
the game because you're not going to run out and buy an end of life playstation 4
at this point it's not like you can't experience it it's just
really not the definitive version i would say
1080p up rendering except that it runs at 720p on ps now
yeah but like they should not have marketing materials in a service that
are not applicable to it if i was paying for this service i'm
paying for the service aren't i you're paying for it right now i'm glad
because i would consider this to be entirely unacceptable you're going to
get me to reimburse it aren't you okay so
i'm paying for it and i'm pissed off
i'm in it i full-screened the client and it still
just refuses to remember that i would like to play my games full screen
look at those interlacing artifacts are
they even trying
oh and it's doing this crap again or is it is that the blanking issue i can't
even tell yeah it is let's move on to
you know what okay stadia
google might have given up on you but i haven't yet because at 9.99 a month with
modern games included with the service and third-party controller support it
has the potential to be pretty compelling
woof holy crap
look at the way they've applied their anti-aliasing
i don't think i've ever seen anything worse than that
that is a really crappy anti-aliasing method i don't even think that's done
through the game that has to be something that stadia is doing as part
of their just you know
rendering at a lower resolution and trying to upscale it kind of
optimization instead of proper anti-aliasing where it
smooths the stair step it's like they're taking the stair step and just like
smearing vaseline on it
why am i not able to start hello
one of the key drawbacks of stadia is that it requires a chrome browser but
then again one of the advantages of stadia is that it runs on basically
anything with a chrome browser even an iphone or an old google chromebook and
unlike GeForce now it's got support for 4k streaming but
watch out because according to stadia gamedb most of the graphically demanding
games are locked at 30 FPS if you crank them up to 4k that is going to have a
noticeable impact on the smoothness of your experience
it's not nearly as bad as ps now though like i don't feel that like
movement movement you know like it's not so delayed
i'd definitely rather have a keyboard mouse right now
thanks google and another thing to watch out for with
stadia is multiplayer stata absolutely does have multiplayer support across its
game library at least in games that support it but in many cases the players
that you are matched against will also need to be gaming on stadia for some
titles then that means pretty slim pickings for matchmaking now a handful
of developers have added cross-play support to the stadia ports of their
games but according to this list on our stadia it's still very much a work in
progress it's totally like
boom boom boom boom boom bow bow wow
bow
no way oh my god
i just gotta kill punching someone with a gun to death
you know it feels not bad feels not bad
though i wouldn't suggest doing much in the way of competitive gaming on stadia
cloud gaming already is going to put you at a disadvantage and from our
experience on a high quality internet connection GeForce now did deliver
slightly lower latency although that was
yesterday and this is today this is this is better than we had before
not bad not bad oh never mind guys this game totally
works with mouse and keyboard it was just pubg that was being stupid and the
latency actually feels really good so the worst thing we can say about the
latency for stadia then is that it can be a little inconsistent because we had
some problems yesterday when we were doing the prep for this video
no this is awesome
the delay is unreal on this particular
game now product x cloud is 15 a month but there
is some serious value here because you're not strictly subscribing to
xcloud you're subscribing to game pass ultimate which happens to include a
fantastic library of games that you can play on your xbox on your pc or
as you can see here in the cloud
hello
i can't control where i'm looking because the delay is so much
now here's the thing though at least a few
of you are probably screaming at your screens right now but cloud gaming
extreme got xcloud working on a pc and some of the problems we're having might
be to do with the fact that we're using a non-officially supported Android
client you know what you guys are right the issue is that the workaround that
cloud gaming extreme used has been resolved with a recent update so
unfortunately we won't be able to experience it on a pc until microsoft
launches it officially on that subject there are a couple of other cloud gaming
contenders that are looming on the horizon amazon luna is currently in
early access and can stream games at 720p with a game list that looks pretty
darn good but we all know how amazon's rival
google's cloud gaming service launch went and how
amazon's game studio is going so all i can say about that one is
good luck daddy bezos and then there's the one that we've talked about before
shadow it's 11.99 a month and offers high-end hardware with good performance
in both games and even other applications like you can use it for
video editing because it's pretty much just a remote desktop connection into a
Windows 10 instance that happens to be in their data center
but the thing with shadow is that while we would love to recommend it based on
our past experience it's not yet available throughout most of the united
states let alone the rest of the world and its future is a little uncertain
right now due to the bankruptcy filing of blade corp its parent company
which makes the bottom line today pretty challenging project xcloud is extremely
promising in the future and it's great for xbox gamers today pretty much a
no-brainer but it's really hard to recommend it for
pc gamers without graphics cards until you can easily set it up on your gaming
pc playstation now frankly kind of sucks
for many of the same reasons like i can only really recommend subscribing for a
month or two getting your fill of ps exclusives then ditching it and then
GeForce now offers the best overall experience thanks to its wide support
for both games and devices because basically if it works on a pc and the
game developer hasn't blocked it it should work on GeForce now
but it's effectively the most expensive
offering on the table once you factor in that you have to buy all of your own
games as for stadia
it's still stadia it's not the worst in any way
but it's also not the best in any way and the problem is that it doesn't
replace a gaming pc in the same way that xcloud or GeForce now can at least try
to and on that subject another benefit of GeForce now at least for our audience is
that the library of games that you buy for it and then own can be painlessly
ported with your save files and everything to your gaming pc once the
shortage is resolved so i think we're going to give the nod to
team leather jacket for today and say that we are excitedly anticipating both
future cloud gaming developments from the likes of microsoft amazon
maybe even shadow and also looking forward to a world where we just don't
have to care about those cloud gaming developments anymore because we can
actually just buy graphics cards you know what else i'm looking forward
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well then are any of you going to go this route with the current market how
it is let us know in the comments if you sold your graphics card
you were left staring at an empty case oh by the way speaking of cases if you
want something else to watch check out our diamond play button pc it may not
have a graphics card but it's ready for an upgrade in the future
it would be perfect for this
guys don't worry that's a dummy GPU that doesn't work
i mean it especially doesn't work now