Since March this year, the average price of graphics cards has dropped by 30%, and individual graphics cards have plummeted by 35% in one day. But this is not the lowest time, and it may continue to decline in the future. So after the hardware drop, will there be more players who choose to replace the game hardware device? Let's take a look at it with Ben Meow!
According to an Antstream Arcade survey, 85% of gamers are willing to abandon hardware updates for cloud gaming, planning to use popular cloud gaming services, while nearly half believe that cloud gaming will revolutionize the industry. Players are more willing to choose cloud games than game hardware updates. According to Antstream Arcade, new cloud gaming players have increased by 3200% since 2021.
Take mobile games, in the past two years, domestic game manufacturers have also launched cloud games, including mobile games such as "Return to Empire" and "Noah's Heart" that were just launched this month, in addition to Android and IOS mobile terminals, there are cloud game mode and web online play mode. However, many small partners will eat mobile phone configuration because of the game, or the lack of mobile phone memory and other reasons (now the larger mobile game will occupy about 10G mobile phone space, such as "Original God", "Glory of the King", etc.).
However, there are several existing problems with cloud gaming, the most important of which is that good network conditions are essential for the low-latency cloud gaming experience and the future evolution of the metaverse. In addition to the case of WIFI, the popularity of 5G will also accelerate the rapid development of cloud gaming.
In fact, from the current real situation, cloud games are more convenient for some people, for the problem of frame drop, delay, I believe that many small partners will still choose to install on mobile phones to play, especially for competitive games. However, the future development trend will definitely become, in the case of network hardware and cloud game ecological environment are popular, the emergence of cloud games will bring certain convenience to people in different scenarios.
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