r/pcmasterrace • u/After_Cookies • 3d ago

News/Article AI was supposed to sell PCs. Instead, PC shipments just crashed 20% as AI eats the world’s RAM, and Windows 11’s Copilot agents aren’t convincing buyers

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/11/ai-was-supposed-to-sell-pcs-instead-pc-shipments-just-crashed-20-as-ai-eats-the-worlds-ram-and-windows-11s-copilot-agents-arent-convincing-buyers/
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u/dookarion 3d ago

Right, and Onlive failed, Stadia failed, Luna... is it still a thing? Nvidia capped Geforce now hard, and Microsoft keeps scaling back their cloud xbox service. Netflix gaming was a flop. Anything else is just a tacked on "value add" to other more dominant subscriptions.

No one has made it work as a broadscale standalone product, and they've had to scale back the hours or increase the prices. If big tech hasn't made it stick and keeps shuttering their attempts it's not happening any time soon.

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u/21shadesofsavage 3d ago

i got no stake in this argument, but luna got the recently released star wars galactic racer. never used luna before. works pretty well. their library size is pretty shit but has some surprising hits

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u/dookarion 3d ago

So much of it comes down to location and connection. It's not unusable if the circumstances line up well enough, it's just not going to happen any time soon (if ever) on the "big scale".

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u/21shadesofsavage 3d ago

yeah definitely. rn i live 4ms away from the nearest datacenter. streaming latency was unnoticeable for me when playing galactic racer. whatever the fuck peering my isp was doing when i lived somewhere else put me at an unstable 30-80ms for game streaming. that was pretty unusable

the physical internet infrastructure in the us needs to be fixed for game streaming to take off. there's no good reason why i can live in one of the biggest cities and have such volatile connection with only one isp available

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u/dookarion 3d ago

with only one isp available

Big business has figured out competing doesn't actually benefit them. They're more than happy with divvying up the market. Look at AMD with Nvidia. Look at the DRAM foundries. The telecoms.

Needing to provide better services, infrastructure, and pricing just means they have to do more work or spend more for less revenue.