I feel like it’s hard enough to stream PS1-PS3 games without some crazy lag, depending on where you are and how things are. I can’t imagine how choppy and insane it’s gonna be to do a PS5 game, not to mention the bandwidth it would take has to be insane, right?
i am a bit of a luddite though, so I don’t understand it very well. It just seems crazy to me
Whether you’re streaming a ps5 game or a ps1 game, it isn’t going to drastically change the bandwidth necessary for a good experience. More than anything latency is what you want to keep down for a good experience and that has little to do with bandwidth.
Sure, if they open the streams up to 4k then bandwidth will be more of a concern, but considering remote play is capped at 1080p when streaming locally from your own ps5 I don’t see that happening in the near term. Of course this is considering you live somewhere in the US that you can at least get a decent cable (or the fiber dream) internet connection, so YMMV.
@evilviper oh man you know way, way more about this than I do. do you have anything you’d recommend me reading so I could educate myself??i guess I just don’t understand how a small PS1 game and a massive PS5 game could stream with the same quality, given the drastic difference in the games.
thank you!!
Just think of it as if you are playing a streaming video, because that is essentially what you are doing. If you were streaming a 1080p video at a constant bitrate, it wouldn’t matter if it was a ps3, ps5, upscaled nes or the latest episode of Black Mirror. The resolution being sent, bitrate and ping are all that matters.
But a video is a set thing. A video game has to change dynamically and have a bunch…
Wait
I think I got it?
Are you actually playing the game on the server far away and they’re streaming THAT to you??? Like you’re not playing a streamed game live on your system, you’re playing it on the cloud or wherever and then stream what you’re doing to you?
Is that it?
You got it! You are sending input to a remote system, it is inputting it on a console on their side and streaming the video to you. That is why ping time is so important, because that is the lag of your input to the remote console.
As far as your client is concerned it’s a video that takes a lot of inputs from a controller. It knows nothing else and isn’t doing anything but accepting input and processing the video the same as watching Netflix.
So yeah, doesn’t matter from the client perspective if it’s PS3/4/5 level of game.
Now it matters a lot on the sever side. That hardware needs to be much more capable.
