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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

this makes sense

No it doesn't

Well, what you say does, but running games in the cloud doesn't make sense in any logical way except for that that the owner of said cloud will be walking to the bank laughing his ass off

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh I agree paying to rent a cloud xbox when you have one sitting at home is fucking stupid. A lot of cloud everything is fucking stupid, and I say that as an IT person who's been fighting cloud-itis since the term 'cloud computing' became a thing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    I see this as a feature most people wouldn't actually use.

    Only use case I'd have for it is wanting a game to render at higher specs while travelling at like a hotel.

    I bought a steam deck for a vacation when it came out. Used it on the flight and that's it. Never played games except at the airport so I was fine rendering at the steam deck.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Idk, I think you're immediately jumping to the conclusions of "they're trying to make us all rent everything", which, while most likely isn't wrong, is also obscuring some potential for "Hey look, I can play less-response-time-intensive xbox games on my fricking phone with good wifi, because of amazing compression technology"

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