My buddy's $2,000 PC is already a paperweight. That's the whole point. Consoles and PCs are built to become obsolete. Cloud gaming isn't.
You say lag is a dealbreaker. I say it's a speed bump. Starlink and fiber are spreading fast. Meanwhile, your $500 console is already outdated the day you buy it. That's not a win for ownership, that's a trap.
And let's be real: how many people actually replay old games? The "ownership" argument sounds nice, but most of us play something once and move on. Cloud gaming frees us from the hardware treadmill. That's progress, not a loss.
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