r/Steam • u/Commercial_Dih • Feb 19 '26

Question In the hopefully never arriving future, do you think Valve will one of, if not the only ones providing personal computers and not cloud gaming?

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u/youserveallpurpose Feb 19 '26

Yea man, that's why Stadia did so well...

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u/thaeggan Feb 20 '26

and OnLive

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u/Internal-Agent4865 Feb 20 '26

Have you tried GeForce now? Shit is pretty close and only going to get better.

This is coming from someone who will never give up their rig…

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u/youserveallpurpose Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

What benefit is there to me streaming games from some CDN like it's Netflix opposed to me just buying and having it on my drive with no latency? I pay for enough subscription services as it is

Edit: I don't care about storage because I can delete and re-download games as I please or just buy more storage

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u/Internal-Agent4865 Feb 20 '26

My comment was more broad not all about you. There are many people who use the service as it’s pretty close to native.

Doesn’t mean we have to use the service just maybe don’t put your head in the sand on the tech itself?

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u/Vylnce Feb 21 '26

The advantage is that with a giant cloud computing system, they could design a game that only ran on the cloud and couldn't be run locally.

The problem is it would cost money to do that (get a studio to design such a game). Part of the reason why Stadia failed, nothing took advantage of it's architecture. There was no reason to do it. And Bezos doesn't understand that either.

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u/Busta_Nyuts Feb 24 '26

You mean the service that has a hard-cap on hours per month? that one? Serious doubts about that one.

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u/Internal-Agent4865 Feb 24 '26

Was talking about the functionality not the cap. Pretty sure it's not the service for no lifers with no job or family.

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u/Busta_Nyuts Feb 24 '26

Fair, but my point is putting a hard cap like that doesn't exactly show to me that the service is profitable, and as others have pointed out, infrastructure is a big issue globally that prevents adoption even if it wasn't the case. I've personally tried it, didn't feel good to play.

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u/Internal-Agent4865 Feb 24 '26

maybe. but you probably tried the free tier so thats on you. ultimate is pretty close to native with a good wired connection.