www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pomC1CfpC0
You’re late to the party, GN released this a year ago. They’ve been doing this already, but because most people who PC game are semi-tech savy, build their own.
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!
(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, “Damn, you were right!” And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can’t afford to buy PCs anymore)
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 day ago
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn’t be that much of a stretch lol
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Can’t recall the vendor, but I saw at least one that tried a rent-a-PC things aimed at gamers. But the price was egregious, and I wanna say they didn’t even ship the hardware they advertised.
Anyway, point was it’s already being tested in the wild…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
Pretty common in corporations. In a company I used to work I got a new computer with the latest specs every year. In the one I’m now they own them and I have to fight to get upgrades.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
No, because PC is an open platform, not dependent on specific hardware.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Sorry, you don’t get any points for this prediction, because it already exists.