9 Reasons This Console Generation Will Be Dominated By PC

3. Game Streaming

This is not Twitch.TV streaming, which PCs can already do (and have been doing for a while). This is running a game on a high end PC, while playing it through a laptop, tablet, or any other device with WiFi. If this sounds somewhat familiar, it should €“ services like Gaikai, OnLive, and PlayStation Now were or are all about streaming games from the cloud to a device to allow people to play anything anywhere. The difference is that PC game streaming doesn€™t even try to go outside your home, which would introduce tons of lag and bandwidth problems. Right now, there are two main solutions for streaming PC games around your house. First is Steam€™s In-Home Streaming feature, which is in beta testing right now. It allows you to stream from any PC or Mac with Steam installed to anything else with Steam (which is free). The main problem is that, like many other things in beta testing, it€™s full of bugs and performance issues. Steam€™s game streaming seems promising, but until it€™s out of beta, it€™s not worth the headache. The other option is Nvidia€™s GameStream service, which is part of the software for their graphics cards. While it only works with about 100 games, it does offer one major advantage: it works on Android devices. Because Nvidia designed GameStream to work on their Android powered handheld, the Shield, it was fairly easy to make an app that allowed people to stream to Android phones and tablets. Between controllers for Android tablets and the Amazon Fire TV box, it€™s pretty easy to get PC gaming into the living room, even if you don€™t a PC there.