 What in the Sam heck are you doing? Do you have any idea how impossible it is to get these things? I'm glad I got here in time. Those gamers over there almost wasted their money paying scalper prices for a GPU Instead of saving it with this easy trick Yeah Some of you probably know what's coming due to the ongoing shortage of graphics cards I am about to recommend something that you might not expect using a cloud gaming service temporarily Until the world returns to sanity But I would never consider steering you guys wrong. So before I settle on a recommendation I'm just going to have to try all of them Just like you should try our sponsor, GlassWire Are you having poor quality video meetings? Use GlassWire and instantly see what apps are wasting your bandwidth during your meetings and block them Get 25% off using offer code Linus at the link down below The thing is normally the heavy lifting of gaming AI enemy and physics computations 3d rendering, you know that kind of stuff is handled by your PC But every cloud gaming service has at least this in common It pushes all of that work into a data center somewhere Which feeds the final output in the form of a video to your machine over the internet So that's why the system requirements for all of the services that we're trying today are similar to the requirements for watching High-definition video on YouTube or Netflix Now you will be making some compromises Image quality won't be as good kind of like how 4k YouTube doesn't look as good as 1080p on Blu-ray And you can expect to experience some latency like how zoom calls always have a slight delay when people talk But at anywhere from 10 to 15 dollars a month you could afford about five Years of cloud gaming service for the price of a scalper markup on an RTX 3070 Let's kick things off then with GeForce now from our good friends over at Nvidia After the battle of Kaer Morhen the defenders licked the wounds and mourned their losses Save Ciri who began to plan her revenge on the Google assistant and Alexa She woke Geralt one night Geralt excuse me and urged him to travel with her to Velen to the top of Bald Mountain It's an old mountain lost its hair when its kids got all back talkie Man that looks good. Don't it? The advantages of GeForce now are many Nvidia has been working on this technology for a long time and they're deeply experienced when it comes to PC gaming You also get Nvidia exclusive eye candy like RTX real-time ray tracing hairworks, etc And it's pretty ain't it? I feel like I'm this I'm in a morgue here. Is it pretty or not? It's the Witcher 3 There's only one right answer. It's pretty in a game like this Honestly where there's already kind of a laggy feel to the camera movements with the mouse. I Hardly noticed the latency Have you tried cloud gaming David? What do you do you find there's a difference from one type of game to another? Yeah Yeah Well remember too we've got it blown up on an 88 inch TV If you're on a 48 say for example If you knew anyone who had a TV like that I think it would look a lot more reasonable And as good as GeForce now is it's not magic It's limited to 1080p at 60 FPS if you look closely you will notice compression artifacts particularly when there's a lot of motion on screen and Finally for competitive games like this The additional latency is going to make it pretty difficult to keep up with very good players. I I got to say Rocket League's visual style, which is kind of clean But then with like fine details in the grass and stuff Does not lend itself well to this kind of video compression No, that's not why I'm not gonna make excuses. Wow. All right, I think that's not quite enough for that Other highlights include the complete access to in-game controls and quality settings the very low system requirements for your streaming device compatibility with both Android and iOS in addition to of course Mac and PC and Their free trial which lets you decide for yourself if it's worth the price of admission With a catch the free trial works for an hour at a time and you have to wait in line to use it So you can see right now. There's 24 gamers ahead of me. Also the hardware isn't as good with RTX on not being an option If that's something that you wanted to experience for my part Ain't nobody got time to sit and wait for these other gamers So let's see what Sony has to offer after all while PC gaming does have its benefits Playing Sony exclusive titles like God of War or the last of us isn't one of them I was initially surprised to see a lower price for Sony's service Considering that it actually includes some games. So save your money and buy a water bottle on LTT store.com, right? Maybe not the UI is so bad that it's hard to believe it's even from the same company that makes the PlayStation 5 Unless you are on a PlayStation using PS now. There is literally no search function to find games You just have to scroll through them and some things just outright didn't work for us like launching PUBG Let's actually give that a shot. Oh my god. It has moved it Did I go down too many play history? Okay, at least it's in my play. I thought I was gonna have to find it again What's funny about this is that it was supposed to just say something about not being able to get an update and not work at all And that's what we were expecting to show you but this is good Wow Oh 69 joint oh, I think it's just completely frozen. I Mean there are a few things about this experience we can appreciate. There's the glorious 720p medium details the oh, we've got just the right number of players in our game. Nice PlayStation now is not responding. Okay Let's try relaunching like does this thing even work? Are you just messing with me? Closing your last game session. I knew what game session I never even got to play How is this so bad are they not a multi-billion dollar company Wait, I can't get this mouse cursor off the screen. Are you kidding me right now? I Can't get it off the screen. I mean, I mean controller compatibility is a plus It supports dual shock 3 and 4 and actually even like things like Xbox controllers. Although the service does tell you hey we recommend a dual shock 3 or 4 and Actually has no support for the dual sense the PlayStation 5 controller For whatever reason I mean in fairness, I guess their devs have plenty of other stuff to work on Okay, so wait, wait, hold on a second. So let's maximize now. I'm not gonna worry about the mouse cursor Let's wait 18 more minutes for this game to launch This is enough to sour me on cloud gaming as a whole like I'd be like this is crap Honestly, though the GeForce now experience wasn't perfect either like I had to use my previous knowledge of kind of the buggyness of that platform From just using GeForce like in-home streaming to fix that issue where the game was like running But it was minimized and so I saw like a steam window through my VM that would confuse an average user for sure Huzzah we managed to get into a freaking game here Did you fare the experience a lot better on a PlayStation 5 controller? Okay, that's valid but remember the premise of today's video is You're a PC gamer who's stuck without a video card, you know, you want cross-platform compatibility I think so that's fine. But guys if it doesn't work on other platforms, you don't get to market it as working on other platforms Yeah, and Making matters even worse on a third-person view style game like this. Like I said with Witcher 3 I don't normally notice the kind of chuggyness and laggyness of camera movements But here it is very very noticeable I mean if there's no other way to play the game because you're not gonna run out and buy an end-of-life PlayStation 4 at this point. It's not like you can't experience it. It's just Really not the definitive version I would say 1080p up rendering except that it runs at 720p on PS now Yeah, but like they should not have marketing materials in a service that are not applicable to it If I was paying for this service, I'm paying for the service aren't I? You're paying for it right now. Well, I'm glad because I would consider this to be entirely unacceptable You're gonna get me to reimburse it aren't you? Okay, so I'm paying for it and I'm pissed off. I minute I Full-screened the client and it still just refuses to remember that I would like to play my games full-screen Look at those interlacing artifacts. Are they even? trying Oh and it's doing this crap again, or is it is that the blanking issue? I can't even tell Yeah, it is. Let's move on to You know what? Okay, stadia Google might have given up on you, but I haven't yet because at 9.99 a month with modern games included with the service and Third-party controller support it has the potential to be pretty compelling woof Holy crap. Look at the way they've applied their anti aliasing. I Don't think I've ever seen anything worse than that. That is a really crappy anti aliasing method I don't even think that's done through the game that has to be something that stadia is doing as part of their Just you know Rendering it a lower resolution and trying to upscale it kind of optimization Instead of proper anti aliasing where it smooths the stair step It's like they're taking the stair step and just like smearing Vaseline on it Why am I not able to start? Hello? One of the key drawbacks of stadia is that it requires a chrome browser But then again one of the advantages of stadia is that it runs on Basically anything with a chrome browser even an iPhone or an old Google Chromebook and unlike GeForce now It's got support for 4k streaming, but Watch out because according to stadia game DB most of the graphically demanding games are locked at 30 FPS if you crank them up to 4k that is going to have a noticeable impact on the smoothness of your experience It's not nearly as bad as PS now though. Like I don't feel that like movement Movement, you know, like it's not so delayed. I Definitely rather have a keyboard and mouse right now Thanks Google and another thing to watch out for with stadia is multiplayer Stadia absolutely does have multiplayer support across its game library At least in games that support it But in many cases the players that you are matched against will also need to be gaming on stadia For some titles then that means pretty slim pickings for matchmaking Now a handful of developers have added cross play support to the stadia ports of their games But according to this list on r slash stadia, it's still very much a work in progress It's totally like oh my god I just got a kill punching someone with a gun to death You know, it feels not bad feels not bad Though I wouldn't suggest doing much in the way of competitive gaming on stadia Cloud gaming already is gonna put you at a disadvantage and from our experience on a high quality internet connection GeForce now did deliver slightly lower latency Although that was yesterday and this is today. This is this is better than we had before Not bad Not bad Oh never mind guys. This game totally works with mouse and keyboard It was just PUBG that was being stupid and the latency actually feels really good So the worst thing we can say about the latency for stadia then is that it can be a little inconsistent Because we had some problems yesterday when we were doing the prep for this video No, this is awesome The delay is unreal on this particular game now Product xCloud is $15 a month But there is some serious value here because you're not strictly subscribing to xCloud You're subscribing to game pass ultimate which happens to include a fantastic library of games that you can play in a single game That you can play on your Xbox on your PC or as you can see here in the cloud Hello I can't control where I'm looking because the delay is so much now Here's the thing though At least a few of you are probably screaming at your screens right now that cloud gaming extreme got xCloud working on a PC and Some of the problems we're having might be to do with the fact that we're using a non-officially supported Android client You know what you guys are right The issue is that the workaround that cloud gaming extreme used has been resolved with a recent update So unfortunately, we won't be able to experience it on a PC until Microsoft launches it officially On that subject there are a couple of other cloud gaming contenders that are looming on the horizon Amazon Luna is currently in early access and can stream games at 720p with a game list that looks pretty darn good But we all know how amazon's rival Google's cloud gaming service launch went and how amazon's game studio is going So all I can say about that one is Good luck daddy Bezos And then there's the one that we've talked about before shadow It's $11.99 a month and offers high-end hardware with good performance in both games And even other applications like you can use it for video editing Because it's pretty much just a remote desktop connection into a windows 10 instance that happens to be in their data center But the thing with shadow is that while we would love to recommend it based on our past experience It's not yet available throughout most of the united states Let alone the rest of the world and its future is a little uncertain right now due to the bankruptcy filing of blade corp Its parent company Which makes the bottom line today pretty challenging Project xcloud is extremely promising in the future and it's great for xbox gamers today pretty much a no-brainer But it's really hard to recommend it for pc gamers without graphics cards until you can easily set it up on your gaming pc PlayStation now frankly kind of sucks for many of the same reasons Like I can only really recommend subscribing for a month or two Getting your fill of ps exclusives then ditching it and then g-force now offers the best overall experience Thanks to its wide support for both games and devices because basically if it works on a pc And the game developer hasn't blocked it it should work on g-force now But it's effectively the most expensive offering on the table once you factor in that you have to buy all of your own games as for stadia It's still stadia. It's not the worst in any way But it's also not the best in any way And the problem is that it doesn't replace a gaming pc in the same way that xcloud or g-force now can at least Try to and on that subject another benefit of g-force now at least for our audience Is that the library of games that you buy for it and then own can be painlessly ported with your save files and everything To your gaming pc once the shortage is resolved So I think we're going to give the nod to team leather jacket for today and say that we are excitedly anticipating both future cloud gaming developments from the likes of Microsoft amazon maybe even shadow and also looking forward to a world where we Just don't have to care about those cloud gaming developments anymore because we can actually just buy graphics cards You know what else i'm looking forward to? 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