GrannySmith1 :
Very interesting. I was just curious that maybe in the next 10, 20 maybe 50 years, the gaming world could be a whole lot different than now? No more complaining about lag. Less raging in call of duty lol.
There will ALWAYS be lag, there's lag even with a console. Cloud Gaming will improve to the point you really won't notice but there's a lot of improvements before that's a common thing.
It will be interesting to see if the next CONSOLES are completely cloud-based or whether they use an upgraded APU (CPU + GPU). If we see another APU it will be x86 and fully backwards compatible to play games LOCALLY.
I think there will be another APU-based console released near 2020, but it will be the LAST one. By the time we'd see one after that (2027?) we should be completely cloud-based except for mobile devices. Not sure about PC gaming in the long run. I think it's good for 10 years but I think the cloud will eventually kill the PC as a gaming device, but then that sort of thing has been said before and proved wrong.
I think upgrading a gaming PC will involve buying an external device that is an APU and Shared RAM (basically a PS4 without the HDD or BD-Drive). We'll plug it into our small, efficient PC which will copy the game files over to the external "gaming brick" to process. We would have no issues about bottlenecks or deciding what motherboard, RAM or CPU. We would just pick one of the "bricks" and use it until we upgrade then SELL the old one.