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1. publlus_enigma · 1790729926 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

   The PS5 may be my last console.

   1. browsingonly · 1790732295 · focus · HN ↗

      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.

      1. robben1234 · 1790736448 · focus · HN ↗

         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.

         1. bsimpson · 1790738254 · focus · HN ↗

            Stadia played Cyberpunk at max settings when none of the home systems could do it. I played it on a Retina iPad, and thought it looked fantastic.

            I've heard people play Fortnite Festival (basically Rock Band, and very latency sensitive) over Microsoft/Amazon cloud streaming.

            "low bitrate and high input latency" is what you'd expect rendering offsite, but in practice, it seems to work surprisingly well.

            1. worthless-trash · 1790752071 · focus · HN ↗

               We have had very... different experiences with stadia. It was not at all useful gor low latency games..

               It is not suitable for competition ranked players. The average player will stomp over high ranked players.

               1. jon-wood · 1790791270 · focus · HN ↗

                  Most people are not competition ranked players, they’re people who like to play a few hours of a game now and again.

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