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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by prepend on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:14PM (#20830816)
My kid plays 1-5 hours of Xbox every day. There’s no way I could pay $1/hour.

Renting game consoles only works for casual gamers or super hard core people who want $5k rigs. Casual gamers don’t care, I think, and use their 5 year old iPhone. And there aren’t a ton of super high end gamers. And I hang out in gaming cafes where people pay $6/hour.

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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by Ajedi32 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:40PM (#20831822)
Thankfully, actual cloud gaming services are way cheaper than $1/hour. Stadia, for example, has no recurring monthly cost for 1080p gaming; you just have to pay for the games.
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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by esmi on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:37PM (#20831073)
$1/hr at 5 hours per day is ~$150/month. I have no idea what you can afford but that’s basically the price of cable these days.
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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by homonculus1 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:58PM (#20831336)
It's also the entire cost of a console these days. The current status quo is a better comparison than a different service where cutting it out entirely is a meme due to ludicrous cost and subpar value.
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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by prepend on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:53AM (#20838590)
It’s also $1800/year. I can buy an Xbox or ps4 for $500. I can buy a gaming pc for $2k.

Paying $1800/year/per person forever is a bad deal.

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