# Renting GPUs, Watching Ads: Is This Gaming’s Future?`

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Podcast: [Extreme Gaming Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/extreme-gaming-podcast-2940)
Published: 2026-01-08T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/extreme-gaming-podcast/2434184
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Duration seconds: 6047

## Resource

This Episode kicks off with New Year cheer, and diving headfirst into the looming future of gaming. The crew debates whether PC enthusiasts are becoming an endangered species as Microsoft, NVIDIA, Steam, and Game Pass push gaming toward the cloud. Physical games are fading, hardware prices are exploding (hello RTX 5090), and subscriptions, ads, and tiered performance plans threaten ownership as we know it. From GeForce Now hour caps to fears of “watch ads to play,” the panel wonders if we’re heading for a future of rented GPUs, retro backlogs, and Chromebooks pretending to be gaming rigs. Optimism is… cautiously buffering. discord.gg/extremegamingpodcast

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