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Some few days ago Google introduced its cloud gaming service christened Google stadia. This seems to be the future of gaming worldwide big gaming brands had earlier launched their own cloud gaming services. Microsoft with Xcloud and Sony with Onlive.

It didnt come as a surprise to many as Africa was excluded from the list of the beneficiaries of this beautiful innovative. I'll be listing 2 reasons why Nigeria is not ready for cloud gaming.

1) Expensive Data
Data in advanced parts of the world is as cheap as pure water. Heck, in some places its almost free. You can get the unlimited data package for as low as $50 in USA on T-Mobile. An equivalent of N15k. N20k would only get you 50gb of data. A gigabyte of data in Nigeria costs more than a thousand naira on mtn network. Streaming video/music services is a waste of data for many. They'd rather download or collect from friends through xender. Now tell me how such persons would expend data on cloud gaming which consumes more than triple of what music/video services consume.

2) Snailspeed network
Need I remind you that our 4G network is not half efficient as it ought to be. The world average speed is 23mb while that of Nigeria is 11mb. Network providers in Nigeria are lagging behind seriously. A 4k cloud game requires a minimum of 100mb/s to run smoothly. The best we can get in Nigeria is 11mb/s, although some games on onlive can perform alright at 3mb/s. It's still below par.


Sadly we just have to stick to hardware gaming and sees what will happen with 5G in Nigeria.