Can I use this to make backups of my game saves to USB?
Being somewhat naive to the gaming scene, I only recently discovered that the PS5 prevents you from backing up your game saves to your own physical media - something that was possible on the PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4.
Instead, you have to subscribe to PS Plus and enable cloud backups - and you need a separate subscription per user profile.
I only discovered this after my daughter lost a year of work in Minecraft due to data corruption, and I tried to teach her the value of backing up.
If things continue they may be everyone's last console. The next gen might effectively be a video player and controller interface for content rendered outside of your home. No physical games (or saved game backups) at all under this scheme, of course.
Ask Google, Microsoft or Nvidia why it's not in fact the future of gaming. You need to be rich enough to have fast internet and pay an expensive subscription yet poor enough to fail to afford a GPU at home, all while accepting low bitrate and high input latency. It's not a large addressable market.
I don't get the thing about the GPU: even rich people don't necessarily want to bother with owning a GPU thing. And whether fast internet is expensive depends on where you live. Here in Singapore 10 Gbps fibre to the home starts at around 20 USD per month; and we are in a really high cost of living country (we usually topped charts of 'most expensive city to live in').
You're conflating internet prices with cost of living when it's almost entirely unrelated. You live in one of the more densely populated areas around, that is significantly more important. I pay more than $100usd for 100mb bonded DSL because there are probably fewer people in my county than a Singapore city block.
Well, the comment I replied to suggested that cloud gaming wouldn't work at all, because of these economics.
Thanks to your refinements, we know that remote gaming like this might not work for the hillbillies, but perhaps it might work in the centres of civilisation?
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Being somewhat naive to the gaming scene, I only recently discovered that the PS5 prevents you from backing up your game saves to your own physical media - something that was possible on the PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4.
Instead, you have to subscribe to PS Plus and enable cloud backups - and you need a separate subscription per user profile.
I only discovered this after my daughter lost a year of work in Minecraft due to data corruption, and I tried to teach her the value of backing up.
The PS5 may be my last console.
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There are lots of techniques to hide latency.
I don't get the thing about the GPU: even rich people don't necessarily want to bother with owning a GPU thing. And whether fast internet is expensive depends on where you live. Here in Singapore 10 Gbps fibre to the home starts at around 20 USD per month; and we are in a really high cost of living country (we usually topped charts of 'most expensive city to live in').
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Thanks to your refinements, we know that remote gaming like this might not work for the hillbillies, but perhaps it might work in the centres of civilisation?