No, in addition to the reasons brought up by the other commenters, I’m starting to think that “computers as a service” will start to be a thing.
Google’s Stadia by all accounts wasn’t horrible, but it was pricey and the selection was subpar.
But what if Amazon, Azure, and Google start up some post-AI burst equivalent that provides a use case for all that processing power? Sure, the GPUs used by commercial AI aren’t designed for gaming, but Nvidia could see the writing on the wall and start partnering with hyper scalers to create massive racks of gaming GPUs. And it would be one step closer to the ultimate goal of removing personal ownership of things! Pay a subscription for a cloud gaming PC or try your luck on building your own.
NZXT has this now. And why people went ballistic on them last year. You pretty much “rent” a PC but the price comes out to be nearly triple what you’d pay for a premium PC over the course of a few years.
That scam works well for AWS. My last company was a very small software dev (120 people) and spent $6M a year on AWS. Can you imagine the infra you could build with that much money!? And still have plenty left over to pay a small team to be responsible for it.
Yeah the flak was justified though. They had all these rules like it couldn’t be"used" in any way, so people weren’t able to upgrade as often as they promised. I believe Gamer Nexus did a video about it.
No, in addition to the reasons brought up by the other commenters, I’m starting to think that “computers as a service” will start to be a thing.
Google’s Stadia by all accounts wasn’t horrible, but it was pricey and the selection was subpar.
But what if Amazon, Azure, and Google start up some post-AI burst equivalent that provides a use case for all that processing power? Sure, the GPUs used by commercial AI aren’t designed for gaming, but Nvidia could see the writing on the wall and start partnering with hyper scalers to create massive racks of gaming GPUs. And it would be one step closer to the ultimate goal of removing personal ownership of things! Pay a subscription for a cloud gaming PC or try your luck on building your own.
People will subscribe to computers too… :) Haha this world is beyond silly now.
NZXT has this now. And why people went ballistic on them last year. You pretty much “rent” a PC but the price comes out to be nearly triple what you’d pay for a premium PC over the course of a few years.
Thats really weird. I guess you can sell anything to people who are afraid of owning something, by just telling them service is included or something.
That scam works well for AWS. My last company was a very small software dev (120 people) and spent $6M a year on AWS. Can you imagine the infra you could build with that much money!? And still have plenty left over to pay a small team to be responsible for it.
Yeah I know. I also worked for a small company and they spent a fortune on aws, mainly just for virtual machines and network traffic between regions.
None of my colleagues ever run anything on aws themselves for their own homelab stuff, since its extreamly overpriced.
Yeah the flak was justified though. They had all these rules like it couldn’t be"used" in any way, so people weren’t able to upgrade as often as they promised. I believe Gamer Nexus did a video about it.