Will we see a Switch 2 streaming, cloud gaming service? – Nintendo Switch 2 Discussion board

Short reply:
No

Long reply:
I’ve lengthy held the view that sport streaming is a little bit of a useless finish concept. Basically the entire concept of it’s that you just’re buying and selling latency, picture high quality and bandwidth for the flexibility to make a better spec machine seem like a decrease spec machine. The drawback is that early on when that hole in spec, particularly for cellular gadgets, made the concept a simple promote the bandwidth simply wasn’t there. And now that the bandwidth is actually right here now we have moveable gadgets which are succesful sufficient to largely negate the benefit

The golden age of sport streaming was most likely round 10-15 years in the past. After individuals have been beginning to get fibre, after the discharge of 5Ghz WiFi (802.11n), earlier than portables have been pushing HD graphics. In a way you could possibly argue the Wii U was that product in that period, and take a look at how properly it did

Which is kinda the place this whole concept of yours falls aside a bit. The Switch 2 IS that low powered machine. It won’t be probably the most succesful machine on the planet however, frankly, it places out a reasonably rattling good picture for the category of machine it’s. So what are we truly gaining? I imply you would possibly say that folks produce other extra decrease powered gadgets they will use as a substitute however in a number of years these gadgets, when new, may also be comparable in spec to the Switch 2. Effectively, you acquire nothing right here whereas nonetheless paying the fee

That value? Image high quality and latency. You say that sport streaming is secure and low latency however, actually, that relies on how shut you might be to the server, how congested the community is and so forth. And the factor about streaming is that any latency, any compression, any dropped frames from the connection? That will get added to any latency or poor picture high quality within the engine or the show. You’re changing the HDMI cable with video compression and an web connection. And HDMI cables are a god-tier connection, we’re speaking 10s of Gbps with small fractions of a ms latency and 0 compression (ignoring DSC at tremendous excessive resolutions)

Lastly, by way of value. If the intent it so lower your expenses by not having to pay for RAM? Well good luck with that. I can inform you now that server prices should not precisely happening. If Nintendo have been to exit and take an enormous gamble on NVidia backed ARM server farms for operating Switch 2 video games within the cloud I am unable to think about that’d be low cost. And actually not a wise transfer given they might have already got medium time period quantity contracts for the varied elements to make Switch 2 consoles

….. and would possibly I additionally add, the place’s the priority for a big drop in {hardware} gross sales coming from? Seems a tad misplaced I might counsel