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.
At least GeForce allows you to play games you already own, unlike Stadia where you have to rebuy everything. IIRC in GeForce Now its just a matter of signing into your Steam account.
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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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Stadia had other issues beyond fast Internet, like asking a community focused on Windows/DirectX to add support for the Stadia/Vulkan stack.
At the last Stadia developers conference, a few months before it was killed, one of the talks was about doing something like Proton for Stadia.
EDIT: Here is the talk,
"How to write a Windows emulator from scratch"
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-N7wDCRohg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-N7wDCRohg
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