What is cloud gaming and how it works

What is cloud gaming?

Hello everyone in this blog i am going to tell you about what is cloud gaming and how does it works i will also discuss about it's pros and cons and at last i will tell you that is it really the future of gaming and how will it impact the gaming world in the coming years so let's get started

Cloud gaming is just like streaming videos but the only difference is that the control of the game is in our hands it that is the game is being processed on the separate server which streams the video to our hardware and the input we give is transferred to the server and this goes on while we are playing a game on a cloud storage so basically it does not uses our hardware to process the games but the server's processing power is used to interactively stream the game to our hardware

How does it works?

So to understand properly about the working of cloud gaming we need to understand some terms of cloud computing 

Server- It is a remote computer which provides services to a computer which it is not capable of like in cloud gaming it is used to process the graphics,input etc of the games

Client- It is the computer which requires the service and it receives the information from the server in cloud gaming our own computer or hardware is the client

Internet connection- It is required to send and receive information from client to server and vice versa

Input device- In cloud gaming an input device is used to give input commands while playing games such as mouse,keyboard,controller etc 

So as you have learned about basic thing of cloud gaming let us find out how does it actually works 

The client sends a signal to the server to do a particular task like rendering graphics or moving the player according to the input of the user since server contains hardware which can do the processing it then processes it and sends it back to the client and this transfer of signal goes on a loop till we stop playing the game all the transferring of the signal happens on a network which requires an internet connection to function and since gaming is high end task which requires high end hardware and lots of processing power the internet connection should be fast enough to transfer signals less time

Advantages of cloud gaming

There are lots of advantage of cloud gaming over how we play games today and some of them are:

• We will no more need a high end gaming pc or console as in cloud gaming the game will run on the cloud server and it will save a lot of money as the price of gaming pc's and consoles are so high

• We will be able to play high end games on any device such as laptop,mobile,pc,tv etc as cloud gaming is a streaming services and streaming can be done on any device we will just need an internet connection to play

• With the help of cloud computing we will be able to play big sized games instantly as the game will be stored in  cloud storage of the server and it will be already installed so we can play it instantly

• Since the game is being stored in the cloud storage of the server it will be impossible for people to do piracy of games 

Disadvantages of cloud gaming

So as cloud gaming has many advantages it also has some disadvantages which we cannot ignore so let's talk about them also

• The first disadvantage of cloud gaming is that it will require a fast and stable internet connection and most of the geographical location does not have that so due to this cloud gaming is limited for now

• It has high latency due to limited capabilities latency is the delay in any sort of action it can come from input devices,hardware or even the processing time so the delay after giving input and action can cost you very much if you play competitive games

• It requires large amount of bandwidth a bandwidth is the amount of internet you use for instance usually streaming services uses as much as 3gb per hour

• It can cause packet loss that is when data packets travelling across a networks cannot make it to their final destination and thus are dropped in between since The large amount of data being transferred from remote servers in order to provide a gaming experience could increase the chances of packet loss, a phenomenon that already occurs when transmitting nominal amounts of data

The future of cloud gaming

Till now cloud gaming services are not much used due to their limited capabilities and disadvantages that we have talked above but with advancement in technologies in the future things such as latency,bandwidth,packet loss etc will be improved and the experience of cloud gaming will also become good companies are already working on improving cloud services and introducing features such as sharing the gpu resources between two or more users,negative latency and improving the overall infrastructure of cloud gaming to make it better

Some of the available and upcoming cloud gaming services are

• Google stadia
• Nvidia geforce now
• Playstation now
• Microsoft Xcloud
• Electronic arts gamefly and many more...

As you can see that such big brands are investing their resources in cloud gaming to make it better and more reliable so it is the future of gaming and it will definitely change the gaming world in the upcoming years


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