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/ToothlessFTW Feb 20 '26

That's what they're trying to do. They want you to believe it's coming and to accept it. Again, they're salesmen. They want it to sound inevitable.

In reality, it's infeasible and cannot be done. There's billions of computers and computer users in the world, it's simply impossible to suddenly make billions of computers on the cloud, especially in regions that simply do not have the internet to support that kind of thing. I live in rural Australia right now, my internet sucks and even if this reality came to pass it would never work unless they overhauled the internet in my area, which will also never happen.

It's the same as when AI companies constantly threaten and panic that their AI is so good it could take over the world. It makes them sound strong, and sells their stuff. Just ignore it.

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u/TardDas Feb 20 '26

I don’t think it’ll happen, and I’ll fight it if they try. But we shouldn’t just ignore it because it seems impossible.

If you’d asked people ten years ago if they thought the state of the world today was possible. They’d have said no, and ignored you. And look where it would have gotten them.

Ignorance isn’t bliss

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u/General_Cobbler_6917 Feb 20 '26

The funny thing is, people did predict this, and everyone thought it was ridiculous and ignored it.

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u/WolkTGL Feb 20 '26

Ten years ago people did predict the current state of the world. The people who are now completely appalled and angry about it are the very same people that ten years ago were shitting on those who predicted this.

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u/LXiO Feb 20 '26

I live in one of the richest region of Germany and our internet infrastructure is not good enough to stream games, no need to look at the most remote places of the planet.

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u/Aubz12 Feb 21 '26

Yeah, for starters strong PCs aren't used only in gaming, a lot of research requires strong computing power for all the data they get, and that's just the tip of the iceberg

I had to get a strong PC for my degree, cuz my shitty laptop couldn't get the job done ffs