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This is great, but I was expecting notebook gaming to go the streaming way. What's stopping game streaming from becoming mainstream? Latency?
by josu 11y ago
This is great, but I was expecting notebook gaming to go the streaming way. What's stopping game streaming from becoming mainstream? Latency?
- TillE 11y agoOnLive tried that. They're gone. Yes, latency is the biggest problem. The absolute best case scenario is that you have a direct fiber connection to your ISP, which is hosting servers locally. Then it would probably be acceptable. Realistically, with a standard consumer broadband connection you're adding tens of milliseconds on top of everything else, which completely ruins a lot of action games. However! If you've got a desktop gaming PC at home, you can now play games from your laptop (or TV) with Steam in-home streaming. They don't even have to be Steam games. Over a wired LAN it's fantastic, and on WiFi it's still pretty good.