Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Can Cloud Gaming Compete with Handheld PCs?”.
What else you want to talk about? Should we talk about the gcloud review sample? Why don’t you give me your take on it? Have you seen the gcloud? Yes, so it’s interesting, I probably if this had been announced when the steam deck was really early. I’D actually probably be supporting of it more you’re new here, so I got ta, forgive you for the people. You got to recap for the people who don’t know what the gcloud is a little bit before you give yourself. I’M actually shocked people, don’t know what the gcloud is.
It’S changing the tech world it is taking over by storm. So on the screen there, the gcloud is a handheld device like the steam deck, but it only does cloud-based uh like streaming platforms like GeForce or uh. I don’t know if it does Game Pass or whatever else or if it’s literally just yeah, Xbox game pass and G-Force now yeah.
So you have to be connected to the internet at all times so like why be handheld, but the steam deck at in its early days. The offline mode sucked so I’d go to use it and games just wouldn’t work because they required updates or whatever like that, and it would just be bricked. But now the steam deck is great and the eye and NEOS are great but expensive.
Yes, so so why would you get something if you have to be around all the time you could just use your phone just buy a 50 razor uh, Karachi camera with a hand Sensei or something like that, and then you have your 5G connection anyways. Instead of hot spotting to use this or you’re just at home and Samsung TVs have Game Pass and GeForce now built in anyways. So who is this? Who is this for they’ve? Waited too long, yeah, um, okay! So here’s what happened Logitech reached out about potentially working together, uh to to do like some, some sponsorships or some advertising with us around this product and uh.
Rightfully they expressed some concern that I hate it and therefore would not be willing and or able to talk about its benefits fairly um. I think that’s, I think, that’s uh, that’s a smart thing for for Logitech to be concerned about, but I actually think that they might have gotten the wrong idea from the previous times that I’ve talked about it. I don’t hate cloud or um like network based gaming. At all, in fact, if you go back far enough, was there anyone – and I mean anyone on the face of the entire Earth, who beat the drum harder for steaming home streaming? Uh man, I forget what Nvidia even used to call it, but the original Nvidia Shield? Okay, which was a like a mobile processor Android device, predominantly designed for streaming PC games to your to your mobile. Was there anyone who beat the drum harder for that technology than I did? I don’t think so. I’M super into it. It’S super cool. It’S amazing technology was it Remote Play, I know yeah, I don’t have to call it Grid or something like that at some point, um, no, no moon shadow people are trying to remember what it was called. Yeah Moonshadow was a different thing that was like a third-party app that used the same Nvidia encoder, but it wasn’t like the first party, one that ran on the Nvidia Shield, specifically um. For me, the main concern with the G cloud is that it’s up against a competing device that can also be used for remote play, but that has a powerful PC inside it. However, there are still ways that the gcloud could justify itself and some of them I’ve talked about before, but some of them I haven’t GeForce, now gaming, apparently or game stream, no game stream seems, I think, it’s game stream anyway. Anyway, the point is some of the ways that it could justify itself.
I’Ve talked about before if, for example, the controls like if the ergonomics of it are significantly better than the steam deck, I could see that being a reason to have one of these, and they wouldn’t even need to be amazing to be better than the steam deck Steam deck’s heavy man, it’s heavy another way it could justify itself is great battery life. I haven’t seen the battery life. I don’t know what the battery life is of the gcloud, but the steam deck around a couple of hours, if you’re, actually playing games locally. On the device – and you might get what three and a half or four yeah, not strong yeah, it’s it’s not great! So that’s one of the drawbacks of having a powerful PC in your handheld instead of using mobile hardware and a handheld um, okay, that’s it pricing! It could also justify itself so we’d have to see what kind of pricing Logitech is planning in the future um. So I I guess what I, what I’m saying is it one is coming and I’m gon na get a chance to try it in person and basically we’ll decide how to proceed from there um, but as a happy steam Deck customer. Would you consider the gcloud? No, I love my steam deck. I don’t like the battery life, like we’ve, done a few travel projects and having to stop playing. You know the first third of a flight or plug it in really sucked, but it is truly like amazing, I’m playing Fallout 4 with mods and it looks great and runs smoothly like I can’t. I can’t give that up to go on airplane, Wi-Fi and stream via GeForce, hoping that it works well. I’D rather just carry on a battery pack or wait for for Gen 2, or you know I feel like steam would even or valve would even release just upgrade kits for your steam deck. So I feel like that is a more solid uh investment. At this point.
Um, especially at its price point, it seems like a no-brainer .