I'm a cloudgaming skeptic. So I switched my entire gaming life to streaming-only for a week to put the tech to the test.
Game streaming has felt like the “next big thing” in gaming for the past decade. I recall trying out services like OnLive back in my college dorm room, playing the same 30-minute trials over and over again. Half the time the service never booted, and the half that it did was a lag-filled mess. Fast forward a couple of years and Sony acquires Gaikai to integrate into PlayStation Now , but left it largely ignored until Xbox began its push into streaming with its Xcloud initiative.
I was in a pretty good position to execute that plan already. I live in Westminster Colorado, which is not too far off from Denver, in a single-floor townhome with Xfinity internet. I run all my devices off a wireless modem with 5GHz Wi-Fi. According to various speed tests I’ve run, my download speeds can vary between 50 and 130-ish Mbps depending on the time of day. My options were limited to remote play on PS5 via my smartphone or PC, and Xbox cloud gaming on those same devices.
Or, rather, I thought I was. I knew going in that remote play was far more limited than Microsoft’s cloud gaming platform — you can only stream to your devices on the same network as your PS5, for instance. Essentially, this acts as a second-screen solution. While not as versatile on the whole, I could see plenty of use cases for this and expected the “tethering” to the primary console and home network to provide a much smoother, more stable play experience.
Using the mobile app wasn’t any better, regardless of where in my house I tried it. For a laugh, I even attempted to try using my Premium membership to try and stream a game over remote play. Perhaps mercifully, the system doesn’t allow for that. When selecting what to play, I decided to let the community guide my hand and play a selection of highlighted “most popular on cloud” games. This list was quite surprising at first glance, including titles like Halo: Infinite, Mortal Kombat 11, and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. If those were the most popular, perhaps it worked better than I expected.
Getting my head out of the clouds The most surprising thing about my week of streaming was that, yes, in some instances I was able to adapt so that the input delay felt less bad. It never went away, and in tense moments, I could feel that the game wasn’t keeping up with my actions. That will always be frustrating, and likely never completely disappear. However, slower-paced and turn-based games shine in a cloud context.
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