When you look at the world of gaming, it’s clear to see that one trend is becoming even more prominent, and that’s the rise of instant gaming. Browser games are gaining more traction than ever and cloud games are also on the rise, showing how we are slowly moving away from downloads and installations, to a world where instant accessibility is a key determining factor in the success of a title.

Utilising Powerful Cloud Servers

The main advantage of instant gaming is the convenience it is able to offer. Gamers usually find themselves spending hours downloading huge files, but instant gaming removes this entirely.

This makes gaming available to those who have limited storage, a slower internet connection, or even time constraints. The casino sector is a prime example of how valuable instant gaming can be as well. The casino market is set to be worth US$133.00bn in 2029, with a lot of its success attributed to the fact that you can play almost any game, on any device, instantly. You can even buy scratch cards, and if you win, the money is transferred instantly to your digital wallet. Some of them come with advanced features too, with the Deal or No Deal: What’s in Your Box Scratch having a progressive jackpot.

Features like this just go to show that it’s possible to expand games beyond their original format, without losing instant accessibility. If this concept could be applied to larger games via powerful cloud servers, it could become possible to provide access to games 100GB or bigger, without long loading times. Finding a way to scale instant games could change the market as we know it, and it seems that many companies are already trying to find ways to do this. Microsoft has its cloud gaming platform, and Steam is also working on an instant-access feature. Although there are still some kinks to work out, for example, lag when playing cloud games, there is potential.

Removing Hardware Barriers

Another huge benefit of instant gaming is that it completely removes the barriers imposed by having outdated hardware. High-performance PCs are essential if you want to play intensive games, but with cloud gaming, all the heavy lifting is done by a powerful server. The game can then be streamed to the user’s device. Essentially, this means that anyone with a basic PC or smartphone can play high-end titles without having to upgrade. NVIDIA GeForce NOW has already launched a cloud gaming platform, with support for low-powered devices. If this can be built upon, so that games are not just instant, but with no download required either, this could radically change the world of gaming as we know it. A lot of cloud services allow you to play the game while it downloads, but if you advance too far in the game, or if you try to unlock features that have not been downloaded yet, you’ll find that your experience is limited.


Finding a way around this would make the gaming sector more accessible and inclusive to those who have low-powered devices, while providing instant playability across bigger titles. With that said, with so many new platforms currently in development, a world where instant gaming is the norm, might not be too far away.

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