Cloud gaming....the future?

[jonnyh1994]

So I was just watching the video Linus did on the Nvidia GRID streaming service vs Steam in home gaming and it got me wondering. Has anyone been in the beta's for these cloud gaming services and if so how was your experience? Also would love it if Linus got review units to test the 2 services!

 

This one was shown by jay2cents: http://www.leapcomputing.com/

Found this when searching around: https://www.liquidsky.tv/

[Castdeath97]

Let me first get an internet connection that is over 0.9 Mbps.........

[Guest Kloaked]

Yes. It's far away from being the standard, but yes I do agree.

[DarkEnergy]

I put a graphics card in my computer to play games, not to play online streamed games. Also, you can use a graphics card to accelerate encoding and editing, so if you have a graphics card for that, why not use it for gaming too instead of paying for a streaming service. Not only that but what if your internet went out or is just slow. That's the problem I see with gaming streaming services.

[jonnyh1994]

I put a graphics card in my computer to play games, not to play online streamed games. Also, you can use a graphics card to accelerate encoding and editing, so if you have a graphics card for that, why not use it for gaming too instead of paying for a streaming service. Not only that but what if your internet went out or is just slow. That's the problem I see with gaming streaming services.

Whilst I agree with you. As a student I think this could be very useful. Not having to lug my main pc all the way to uni and being able to play all my games on a cheap laptop that has good battery life sounds like a win! Also I wouldn't be as upset if I was to break a cheap laptop compared to an expensive gaming laptop

 

On the other hand having to use the internet everywhere is one big downside but pretty much everywhere around town has wifi (talking about campus wifi so pretty secure). With the encoding etc. They say on the leap computing that you don't need a really good gpu so running games on ultra on integrated graphics sounds good. Though I can see latency being an issue but it looks like they have it sorted judging from j2c's video

[iHardware Shelden]

I hope not