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For cloud gaming, the hard and highly relevant infrastructure work is about how many edge locations you have. On that metric, Google is far ahead of everybody

• hedora 7y ago
  There is a lot of competition in the cloud gaming space, and there is a low technical barrier to entry, especially since the streaming server + client are likely to commoditize (they’re all based on similar codecs, and require hardware acceleration that’s provided by the GPU). The number of edge locations you have doesn’t matter; latency does. It looks like startups in this space can achieve “good enough” latency with a small number of edge locations. For instance, Shadow covers the vast majority of the US population with four data centers (they have six, total, but two are in Europe): https://status.shadow.tech/ https://status.shadow.tech/ Coverage map: https://shadow.tech/usen https://shadow.tech/usen